Case Name: Samuel CHESTNUT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2006-06-14
Citations: 932 So. 2d 496
Docket Number: No. 4D06-143
Parties: Samuel CHESTNUT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: STEVENSON, C.J., WARNER and MAY, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 932
Pages: 496–496

Head Matter:
Samuel CHESTNUT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 4D06-143.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
June 14, 2006.
Samuel Chestnut, Doral, pro se.
Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jeanine M. Germanowicz, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

Opinion:
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
PER CURIAM.
Samuel Chestnut challenges a trial court order denying his motion for extension of time to file a renewed motion for postcon-viction DNA testing pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.853. By previous order, following this court's remand, the trial court issued an order permitting Chestnut to file a renewed rule 3.853 motion within sixty days. Chestnut v. State, 900 So.2d 624 (Fla. 4th DCA 2005). Chesnut moved for an extension of that deadline.
The trial court denied the extension request as moot, reasoning that it was untimely. We find that the motion for extension was timely, having been filed before the sixty-day deadline expired in accordance with Haag v. State, 591 So.2d 614 (Fla.1992). Accordingly, we reverse and remand for the trial court to consider the merits of Chestnut's extension request.
STEVENSON, C.J., WARNER and MAY, JJ., concur.