Case Name: Duane SAUSVILLE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2003-05-30
Citations: 846 So. 2d 656
Docket Number: No. 2D03-688
Parties: Duane SAUSVILLE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: STRINGER and CANADY, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 846
Pages: 656–656

Head Matter:
Duane SAUSVILLE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 2D03-688.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
May 30, 2003.

Opinion:
NORTHCUTT, Judge.
Duane Sausville challenges the denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. We reverse and remand.
Sausville was sentenced in Pinellas County to two concurrent life sentences. He filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in Pasco County, where he is housed. The circuit court treated Sausville's petition as a motion for postconviction relief attacking his sentence. As such, however, the motion should have been filed in Pinel-las County; the Pasco County circuit court did not have the authority to address Saus-ville's motion as an attack on his sentence. Therefore, we reverse and direct the circuit court on remand either to dismiss Sausville's motion as attacking a conviction in a county other than the one in which he was convicted, or to transfer it to Pinellas County.
Reversed and remanded.
STRINGER and CANADY, JJ., concur.