Case Name: Teresa Lynn WILLS, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2007-08-24
Citations: 963 So. 2d 356
Docket Number: No. 5D07-1088
Parties: Teresa Lynn WILLS, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
Judges: SAWAYA and ORFINGER, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 963
Pages: 356–356

Head Matter:
Teresa Lynn WILLS, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
No. 5D07-1088.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
Aug. 24, 2007.
Teresa L. Wills, Ocala, pro se.
Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Rebecca Roark Wall, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Respondent.

Opinion:
MONACO, J.
The petitioner, Teresa Lynn Wills, seeks certiorari review of an order of the trial court denying her motion pursuant to rule 3.800(c), Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure, on jurisdictional grounds. Essentially, Ms. Wills timely filed her rule 3.800(c) motion, but the sixty-day time limit contained within the rule elapsed before the trial court could address its merits. The State properly concedes that the trial court should have sua sponte enlarged the time within which to have a hearing on the motion in accordance with Abreu v. State, 660 So.2d 703 (Fla.1995), and Timmer v. State, 840 So.2d 1160 (Fla. 5th DCA 2003). Accordingly, we grant certiorari, quash the trial court's order denying relief, and remand this matter for the trial court to consider the motion on the merits.
WRIT GRANTED.
SAWAYA and ORFINGER, JJ., concur.