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Date Created: 2024-02-28 16:04:56.939006+00
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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                STATE OF FLORIDA
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                         No. 1D2021-3587
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KENNETH WAYNE KOLB,

    Petitioner,

    v.

FLORIDA COMMISSION ON
OFFENDER REVIEW,

    Respondent.
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Petition for Writ of Certiorari—Original Jurisdiction.

                        February 28, 2024

PER CURIAM.

     Petitioner is serving a parole-eligible life sentence for a
murder committed in 1979. Respondent, Florida Commission on
Offender Review, extended Petitioner’s Presumptive Parole
Release Date (PPRD) for twenty-four months, based on “good cause
in exceptional circumstances.”

     Petitioner challenged the extension of his PPRD via a petition
for writ of mandamus. The circuit court denied that petition, and
Petitioner now seeks a writ of certiorari in this Court.

    Good cause in exceptional circumstances may be used as a
stand-alone basis for extending a PPRD. See Currie v. Comm’n on
Offender Rev., 295 So. 3d 339, 340 (Fla. 1st DCA 2020); McKahn v.
Fla. Parole & Prob. Comm’n, 399 So. 2d 476, 478 (Fla. 1st DCA
1981). Accordingly, the circuit court did not depart from the
essential requirements of law by denying mandamus relief.

    The Court denies the petition for writ of certiorari on the
merits.

LEWIS, M.K. THOMAS, and LONG, JJ., concur.

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    Not final until disposition of any timely and
    authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or
    9.331.
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Kenneth Wayne Kolb, pro se, Petitioner.

Rana Wallace, General Counsel, and Mark Hiers, Assistant
General Counsel, Florida Commission on Offender Review,
Tallahassee, for Respondent.

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