Case Name: Ronnie Maurice NEAL, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2002-12-19
Citations: 835 So. 2d 1173
Docket Number: No. 1D02-3010
Parties: Ronnie Maurice NEAL, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
Judges: WEBSTER, VAN NORTWICK and PADOVANO, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 835
Pages: 1173–1174

Head Matter:
Ronnie Maurice NEAL, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
No. 1D02-3010.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
Dec. 19, 2002.
Rehearing Denied Feb. 6, 2003.
Ronnie Maurice Neal, pro se, petitioner.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Ronnie Maurice Neal petitions this court for a belated appeal of a February 2000 order denying his motion for postconviction relief, alleging that despite the assurances of an inmate law clerk that a timely notice of appeal would be filed, no appeal was initiated. Neal's petition to this court was filed in July 2002, and is thus untimely pursuant to Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.141(c)(4)(A). More to the point, however, the court's records reflect that a timely appeal of the trial court's February 2000 order was initiated, and that order was affirmed without comment in August 2000. See Neal v. State, 768 So.2d 1075 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000). Accordingly, we deny the petition for belated appeal.
WEBSTER, VAN NORTWICK and PADOVANO, JJ., concur.