Case Name: Joseph SCOTT, Petitioner, v. The STATE of Florida, Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2017-11-01
Citations: 235 So. 3d 967
Docket Number: No. 3D17-2032
Parties: Joseph SCOTT, Petitioner, v. The STATE of Florida, Respondent.
Judges: Before SUAREZ, LAGOA, and FERNANDEZ, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 235
Pages: 967–967

Head Matter:
Joseph SCOTT, Petitioner, v. The STATE of Florida, Respondent.
No. 3D17-2032
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Opinion filed November 1, 2017
Joseph Scott, in proper person.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, for respondent.
Before SUAREZ, LAGOA, and FERNANDEZ, JJ.

Opinion:
SUAREZ, J.
By petition for writ of habeas corpus Joseph Scott seeks a new trial, or a new evidentiary hearing on his 2016 petition filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850, or alternatively, a new appeal from his original judgment and sentence. We deny the writ.
Scott was originally convicted and sentenced in May 2014. Scott's first postcon-viction motion was granted, and he was resentenced accordingly. He filed a second Motion for Post-Conviction Relief on October 13, 2016, claiming ineffective assistance of his counsel when he took the original May 2014 plea. The trial court denied the petition as it was filed two years, four months, , and two weeks after the judgment and sentence were filed, beyond the two-year time limit set forth in Rule 3.850. He has now filed a third post-conviction petition styled as a petition for habeas corpus, alleging the same previously raised claims of ineffective assistance of counsel. Habeas corpus may not be used to file successive 3.850 motions or to raise issues which would be untimely if considered as a motion for postconviction relief under rule 3.850. See Baker v. State, 878 So.2d 1236, 1245-46 (Fla. 2004),
We therefore deny the petition as successive and untimely filed. .