Case Name: Dexter GUNN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1998-12-23
Citations: 721 So. 2d 1251
Docket Number: No. 98-2888
Parties: Dexter GUNN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: STONE, C.J., GROSS, J., and OWEN, WILLIAM C., Jr., Senior Judge, concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 721
Pages: 1251–1251

Head Matter:
Dexter GUNN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 98-2888.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
Dec. 23, 1998.
Dexter Gunn, Belle Glade, pro se.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Sarah B. Mayer, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for ap-pellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Appellant appeals the summary denial of his motion to correct illegal sentence. The trial court did not have jurisdiction to extend the time within which appellant could file his notice of appeal, even though appellant claimed that the order of denial did not reach him within the thirty-day period after entry of the order of denial. However, this court has the jurisdiction to grant a belated appeal, see Fla. RApp. P. 9.140(j)(l), and on consideration of appellant's sworn petition for belated appeal filed with this court and the state's concession that it could not show why appellant's petition for belated appeal should not be granted, we grant the belated appeal and affirm.
STONE, C.J., GROSS, J., and OWEN, WILLIAM C., Jr., Senior Judge, concur.