Court Opinion

ID: 4911253
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-15 19:06:34.044747+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:13:31.297972
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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                 STATE OF FLORIDA
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                         No. 1D21-802
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KEVIN JONES,

    Appellant,

    v.

STATE OF FLORIDA,

    Appellee.
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On appeal from the Circuit Court for Duval County.
Meredith Charbula, Judge.

                       September 15, 2021

PER CURIAM.

     Kevin Jones appeals from an order summarily denying his
motion to correct illegal sentence filed under Florida Rule of
Criminal Procedure 3.800(a). Jones asserted that he was entitled
to relief from his sentence because he was convicted by a six-person
jury, rather than a twelve-person jury. Before his trial in 2013,
Jones waived his right to a twelve-person jury in exchange for the
State’s agreement not to seek the death penalty on the charge of
first-degree murder.

     The trial court correctly denied postconviction relief because
Jones’ attack on his conviction was not cognizable under rule
3.800(a). Because the claim attacks his conviction, not the legality
of his sentence, Jones should have raised the claim in a rule 3.850
motion. See Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.850(a). But even if considered under
rule 3.850, the trial court correctly denied relief because Jones filed
the motion outside the two-year limit set forth in rule 3.850. See
Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.850(b).

    AFFIRMED.

ROWE, C.J., and LEWIS and WINOKUR, 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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Kevin Jones, pro se, Appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

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