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Date Created: 2015-03-18 16:03:06.691517+00
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DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
                             FOURTH DISTRICT

                      DEMARIOUS T. CALDWELL,
                            Appellant,

                                    v.

                          STATE OF FLORIDA,
                               Appellee.

                             No. 4D14-4496

                            [ March 18, 2015 ]

  Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, St.
Lucie County; Robert E. Belanger, Judge; L.T. Case No.
562009CF003442A.

   Demarious T. Caldwell, Madison, Pro Se.

  Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Luke Robert
Napodano, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

  Demarious Caldwell appeals an order striking his rule 3.850 motion as
untimely filed.

   On direct appeal, this Court affirmed with a citation to a case pending
review in the Florida Supreme Court, and Caldwell sought discretionary
review. Caldwell v. State, 86 So. 3d 1160 (Fla. 4th DCA 2012). The time
for filing a rule 3.850 motion was tolled until the Florida Supreme Court
dismissed review of the direct appeal proceedings. Mullins v. State, 974
So. 2d 1135 (Fla. 3d DCA 2008). The state concedes that Caldwell’s
postconviction motion was timely filed and he should have been given leave
to correct the pleading deficiencies in his motion. Fla. R. Crim. P.
3.850(f)(2).

   Accordingly, we reverse and remand for the trial court to give appellant
leave to amend his motion.

   Reversed and Remanded.
GROSS, TAYLOR and MAY, JJ., concur.

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  Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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