Case Name: James Bruce PETERSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2012-05-25
Citations: 88 So. 3d 1035
Docket Number: No. 5D12-1483
Parties: James Bruce PETERSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: GRIFFIN and JACOBUS, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 88
Pages: 1035–1036

Head Matter:
James Bruce PETERSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 5D12-1483.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
May 25, 2012.
James Bruce Peterson, Milton, pro se.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Wesley Heidt, Assistant Attorney General, for Appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
James Peterson appeals the lower court's order dismissing his rule 3.850 motion as untimely. We reverse because Peterson's motion was directed to his resen-tencing and was filed within two years of his sentence becoming final. Thus, it was timely. See Fla. R.Crim. P. 3.850(b). On remand, the lower court is instructed to consider Peterson's motion on the merits.
REVERSED and REMANDED.
GRIFFIN and JACOBUS, JJ., concur.
COHEN, J., concurs specially, with opinion.
. After Peterson violated his probation on several occasions, he was resentenced to five years in the Department of Corrections on January 12, 2010. He filed the instant rule 3.850 motion on November 30, 2011.