Court Opinion

ID: 9955341
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Date Created: 2024-03-28 14:03:08.882343+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:15:34.607598
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FIFTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                 STATE OF FLORIDA
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                        Case No. 5D23-2972
                  LT Case No. 2017-CF-004507-A
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DARYL KEITH BURNS,

    Appellant,

    v.

STATE OF FLORIDA,

    Appellee.
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On appeal from the Circuit Court for Marion County.
Peter M. Brigham, Judge.

Daryl Keith Burns, Bushnell, pro se.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Whitney
Brown Hartless, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for
Appellee.

                          March 28, 2024

PER CURIAM.

     Daryl Keith Burns appeals the trial court’s denial of his
petition for writ of habeas corpus in which he challenged his
conviction and sentence. The trial court denied Burns’ petition
stating that a petition for writ of habeas corpus could not be used
as a substitute for raising issues on direct appeal or in a motion for
postconviction relief. While the trial court’s reasoning and finding
that Burns was not entitled to relief were correct, it should have
dismissed Burns’ petition rather than deny it. See Baker v. State,
878 So. 2d 1236, 1245−46 (Fla. 2004) (finding habeas petitions
collaterally attacking an underlying conviction or sentence should
be dismissed as unauthorized).

     Because the trial court should have dismissed Burns’ claim,
we reverse and remand with instruction to dismiss Burns’ petition
for writ of habeas corpus as unauthorized.

    REVERSED and REMANDED with instruction.

MAKAR, SOUD, and KILBANE, 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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