Case Name: Leonard MELLON, as Executive Director, Department of Highway Safety, etc., Appellant, v. Mack Kenaston CANNON, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1986-02-13
Citations: 482 So. 2d 604
Docket Number: No. 85-498
Parties: Leonard MELLON, as Executive Director, Department of Highway Safety, etc., Appellant, v. Mack Kenaston CANNON, Appellee.
Judges: ORFINGER J., concurs.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 482
Pages: 604–607

Head Matter:
Leonard MELLON, as Executive Director, Department of Highway Safety, etc., Appellant, v. Mack Kenaston CANNON, Appellee.
No. 85-498.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
Feb. 13, 1986.
Enoch J. Whitney, Gen. Counsel and Suzanne G. Printy, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Dept, of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles, Tallahassee, for appellant.
Kenneth A. Studstill, P.A., Titusville, for appellee.

Opinion:
DAUKSCH, Judge.
This is an appeal from a writ of mandamus issued by the circuit court directing appellant to "correct the Department of Highway Safety Vehicles' traffic records on [appellee] so that [his] DUI conviction dated August 29, 1984, will be treated as a first DUI conviction and result in the minimal sentence allowable by Statute for such first conviction."
In August 1984 appellee was convicted of DUI. According to appellant's records this conviction was a second conviction and required a revocation of his driver license for five years. § 322.28, Fla.Stat. Appellee was notified of this and had thirty days within which to seek certiorari review by the circuit court under section 322.31, Florida Statutes. He failed to do this even though there is some indication that he would have been successful in his efforts because a county court had set aside his first conviction.
Some seventy-seven days after rendition of appellant's order of revocation appellee petitioned for a writ of mandamus and was ultimately granted the writ appealed.
Appellee sought the wrong remedy, in an untimely manner and it was error to give him the relief. We do not discuss the issues regarding improper notice and ex parte proceedings because we quash the writ on the other grounds Keith v. Corbin, 346 So.2d 1223 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977), cert. denied, 352 So.2d 170 (Fla.1977).
The writ of mandamus is quashed and this cause remanded to the circuit court to withdraw its requirement of "correction" of records and threat of contempt.
Writ quashed.
ORFINGER J., concurs.
COWART, J., dissents with opinon.