Court Opinion

ID: 4028770
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-08-26 18:06:26.804555+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:45:08.535383
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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

PAUL R. PRIMAVERA,                 )
                                   )
           Appellant,              )
                                   )
v.                                 )                           Case No. 2D15-4933
                                   )
STATE OF FLORIDA,                  )
                                   )
           Appellee.               )
___________________________________)

Opinion filed August 26, 2016.

Appeal pursuant to Fla. R. App. P.
9.141(b)(2) from the Circuit Court for
Hillsborough County; E. Lamar Battles,
Judge.

Paul R. Primavera, pro se.

PER CURIAM.

             Paul R. Primavera appeals the order denying his motion to correct illegal

sentence filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a). We reverse and

remand for further proceedings.

             In his motion, Primavera argued that his sentences for eight counts of

promotion of a sexual performance by a child violated his double jeopardy rights. The

postconviction court correctly found that Primavera's claim was not cognizable in a rule

3.800(a) motion. See Coughlin v. State, 932 So. 2d 1224, 1226 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006) (en
banc) (holding that double jeopardy challenges to sentences necessarily involve

challenges to the underlying convictions and that rule 3.800(a) is limited to claims that

the sentence is illegal). But the court incorrectly found that it could not consider the

motion as filed under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850 because it was untimely

and facially insufficient. Rule 3.850(b) provides that motions under the rule must be

filed within two years of the judgment and sentence becoming final. This court issued

the mandate on November 19, 2013, and Primavera filed his motion on September 11,

2015. Thus, the motion was timely filed. Under rule 3.850, a movant is entitled to

amend his motion to state a facially sufficient claim if he can do so in good faith. See

Patterson v. State, 141 So. 3d 707, 709 (Fla. 2d DCA 2014) (holding that because the

postconviction court should have treated Patterson's motion as if it had been filed under

rule 3.850, he had to be given an opportunity to amend the motion pursuant to rule

3.850(f)(2) if he could do so in good faith).

              Accordingly, we reverse the order denying Primavera's rule 3.800(a)

motion and remand for the postconviction court to treat it as timely filed under rule

3.850.

              Reversed and remanded.

NORTHCUTT, SILBERMAN, and SLEET, JJ., Concur.

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