Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-03-13 15:04:14.833201+00
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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                 STATE OF FLORIDA
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                         No. 1D2023-1898
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LOUIS D. FERNANDEZ,

    Petitioner,

    v.

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
CORRECTIONS,

    Respondent.
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Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus—Original Jurisdiction.

                           March 13, 2024

PER CURIAM.

     Louis D. Fernandez petitions this court for a writ of habeas
corpus seeking to vacate his conviction. Because the issues
Fernandez raises in his petition could have been or were raised on
direct appeal, we dismiss his petition as unauthorized. See Baker
v. State, 878 So. 2d 1236, 1245-46 (Fla. 2004).

     We also find that this petition is frivolous. We direct the Clerk
of the Court to provide a certified copy of this opinion to the Florida
Department of Corrections to be forwarded to the appropriate
institution or facility for disciplinary procedures under the rules of
the Department. See § 944.279(1), Fla. Stat. (providing that “[a]
prisoner who is found by a court to have brought a frivolous or
malicious suit, action, claim, proceeding, or appeal . . . or to have
brought a frivolous or malicious collateral criminal proceeding . . .
is subject to disciplinary procedures pursuant to the rules of the
Department of Corrections”).

     Fernandez is warned that any future filings that this court
determines to be frivolous may result in the imposition of
sanctions, including a prohibition against further pro se filings in
this court. See State v. Spencer, 751 So. 2d 47, 48 (Fla. 1999)
(“[A]ny citizen, including a citizen attacking his or her conviction,
abuses the right to pro se access by filing repetitious and frivolous
pleadings, thereby diminishing the ability of the courts to devote
their finite resources to the consideration of legitimate claims.”).

    DISMISSED.

B.L. THOMAS, ROBERTS, and ROWE, 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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Louis D. Fernandez, pro se, Petitioner.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Respondent.

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