Case Name: Sherlin HERARD, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2017-09-13
Citations: 225 So. 3d 1001
Docket Number: CASE NO. 1D17-1405
Parties: Sherlin HERARD, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
Judges: ROWE, MAKAR, and JAY, JJ., CONCUR.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 225
Pages: 1001–1002

Head Matter:
Sherlin HERARD, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
CASE NO. 1D17-1405
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
Opinion filed September 13, 2017.
Sherlin Herard, pro se, Petitioner.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, and Samuel B. Steinberg, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This petition seeks belated appeal of a judgment and sentence. Although a timely notice of appeal was originally filed and docketed in this Court as case number 1D16-4231, appellate counsel failed to file the initial brief, and the result was dismissal of the direct appeal. Accordingly, we grant the petition, reinstate petitioner's appeal in case number 1D16-4231, and relinquish jurisdiction to the lower court for a period of thirty days to appoint substitute appellate counsel in that proceeding. Substitute counsel shall have thirty days from the date of appointment by the lower court within which to ensure transmittal of the record on appeal to this Court and thirty days thereafter in which to file appellant's initial brief.
ROWE, MAKAR, and JAY, JJ., CONCUR.