Case Name: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Terry L. JOYCE, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1999-05-20
Citations: 734 So. 2d 1029
Docket Number: No. 93,540
Parties: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Terry L. JOYCE, Respondent.
Judges: HARDING, C.J, and WELLS, ANSTEAD, PARIENTE, LEWIS and QUINCE, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 734
Pages: 1029–1030

Head Matter:
STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Terry L. JOYCE, Respondent.
No. 93,540.
Supreme Court of Florida.
May 20, 1999.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Robert J. Krauss, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Chief of Criminal Law, and Dale E. Tarpley, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, Florida, for Petitioner.
Scott L. Robbins, Tampa, Florida, for Respondent

Opinion:
SHAW, J.
We have for review Joyce v. State, 713 So.2d 1053 (Fla. 2d DCA 1998), based on conflict with State v. Thompson, 735 So.2d 482 (Fla.1999). We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const.
Joyce pleaded guilty to numerous criminal charges and was sentenced as an habitual offender. The district court reversed the- sentences because the trial court failed to explain to Joyce that habit-ualization could affect his eligibility for early release. We have since held in Thompson that this is a fact-based issue regarding the voluntariness of the plea and must be raised in the trial court either in a timely motion to withdraw the plea or in a motion for postconviction relief.
Accordingly, we quash Joyce and remand for further proceedings consistent with Thompson and without prejudice to Joyce's right to raise this issue in the trial court via postconviction motion.
it is so ordered.
HARDING, C.J, and WELLS, ANSTEAD, PARIENTE, LEWIS and QUINCE, JJ., concur.