Opinion ID: 515812
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 24

Heading: due process in post-conviction proceedings

Text: 355 Petitioner had contended that he had been deprived of a forum in which to litigate certain of his post-conviction constitutional claims. 356 The deprivation arose, Petitioner contended, because his state habeas corpus petition was transferred by the Florida Supreme Court to the State Circuit Court for treatment as a post conviction relief motion under Rule 3.850, Fla.R.Crim.P. and then summarily dismissed. 357 Petitioner obtained a stay of execution in federal court; the federal court also ordered on March 5, 1981, that Petitioner be afforded the opportunity to exhaust his state claims. Petitioner did in fact litigate his remaining state claims. Accordingly, his claim that he was deprived of a state forum in which to pursue his post conviction claims is now moot. Petitioner's objections to the Magistrate's report acknowledge the mootness of the contention. Id. at 67. 358