Case Name: Jimmy Lee LEWIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2004-07-16
Citations: 880 So. 2d 791
Docket Number: No. 5D04-1414
Parties: Jimmy Lee LEWIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: GRIFFIN, MONACO and TORPY, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 880
Pages: 791–791

Head Matter:
Jimmy Lee LEWIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 5D04-1414.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
July 16, 2004.
Rehearing Denied Aug. 24, 2004.
Tracy S. Carlin of Mills & Carlin, P.A., Jacksonville, for Appellant.
Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Pamela J. Roller, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Jimmy Lee Lewis, who had earlier been convicted of armed robbery with a weapon and sentenced to incarceration for forty years, appeals the summary denial of his Rule 3.850 motion for post-conviction relief. Although Mr. Lewis asserts six claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, we affirm the trial court's denial of relief on the merits. We comment only on the final claim raised.
Mr. Lewis posits that the trial court intended to sentence him as a youthful offender, and instead sentenced him as an adult. He argues that his counsel was ineffective in not raising this issue on appeal. We note, first, that the claim made by Mr. Lewis is one of ineffectiveness of appellate counsel, and should therefore have been raised by a petition for writ of habeas corpus. See Hamilton v. State, 875 So.2d 586 (Fla. 2004); Rutherford v. Moore, 774 So.2d 637, 643 (Fla.2000); Fla. R.App. P. 9.141(c)(2). In order to conserve judicial resources, however, we ordered the sentencing hearing transcribed and have carefully reviewed that document. There is absolutely no indication that the trial judge intended to sentence Mr. Lewis as a youthful offender. •
AFFIRMED.
GRIFFIN, MONACO and TORPY, JJ., concur.
. The appellant's conviction was affirmed per curiam without opinion in Lewis v. State, 842 So.2d 130 (Fla. 5th DCA 2003).