Court Opinion

ID: 4209734
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2017-10-06 13:06:28.057166+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:47:40.704785
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NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING
                      MOTION AND, IF FILED, DETERMINED

                                         IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                                         OF FLORIDA
                                         SECOND DISTRICT

RODNEY LEON RUSS,                        )
DOC #779516,                             )
                                         )
             Appellant,                  )
                                         )
v.                                       )             Case No. 2D16-2009
                                         )
                                         )
STATE OF FLORIDA,                        )
                                         )
             Appellee.                   )
                                         )

Opinion filed October 6, 2017.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for
DeSoto County; Kimberly Bonner,
Judge.

Mark C. De Sisto, Port Charlotte, for
Appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General,
Tallahassee, and Chelsea S. Alper,
Assistant Attorney General, Tampa,
for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

             Following the entry of a no contest plea to four felonies and two

misdemeanors, Rodney Leon Russ now challenges the trial court's denial of his motion

to suppress the evidence. However, because "there was neither a stipulation nor a

determination by the trial court that the denial of the motion to suppress was
dispositive," we affirm without further comment. Ferran v. State, 210 So. 3d 97, 97 (Fla.

2d DCA 2016) (per curiam); see also Fla. R. App. P. 9.140(b)(2)(A)(i); Fla Stat.

§ 924.051(4) (2015); Leonard v. State, 760 So. 2d 114, 119 (Fla. 2000) (holding that

"when the [district] court determines that an appeal does not present . . . a legally

dispositive issue that was expressly reserved for appellate review," the district court

should summarily affirm); Henderson v. State, 135 So. 3d 1092, 1095 (Fla. 2d DCA

2013) (holding that where "there was no finding or agreement that the motion was

dispositive, [the defendant] may not appeal the denial of the motion").

              Yet, because it appears that Mr. Russ "believed that his plea was

conditioned upon the reservation of his right to appeal from the denial of his motion to

suppress, our affirmance is without prejudice to [his] right to file a timely motion to

withdraw his plea pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850." See Ferran,
210 So. 3d at 97 (first citing Sears v. State, 920 So. 2d 709, 709 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006);

and then citing Sloss v. State, 917 So. 2d 941, 942 (Fla. 5th DCA 2005)).

              Affirmed.

WALLACE, KHOUZAM, and BADALAMENTI, JJ., Concur.

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