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Date Created: 2024-02-28 16:06:03.88338+00
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Third District Court of Appeal
                               State of Florida

                       Opinion filed February 28, 2024.
       Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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                             No. 3D23-1178
                      Lower Tribunal No. 18-705 A-K
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                         Pavel Martinez-Ruiz,
                                  Appellant,

                                     vs.

                         The State of Florida,
                                  Appellee.

      An Appeal under Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.141(b)(2) from
the Circuit Court for Monroe County, Mark H. Jones, Judge.

     Pavel Martinez-Ruiz, in proper person.

      Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Kayla H. McNab, Assistant
Attorney General, for appellee.

Before LOGUE, C.J., and LINDSEY, and GORDO, JJ.

     PER CURIAM.
      Because Appellant failed to file a motion to withdraw his plea in the trial

court, this Court is without jurisdiction to hear the instant appeal. See State

v. Dorch, 317 So. 3d 1074, 1084 (Fla. 2021) (“We hold that there is no

fundamental-error exception to the preservation requirement of rule

9.140(b)(2)(A)(ii)(c).”); Hicks v. State, 915 So. 2d 740 (Fla. 5th DCA 2005)

(holding that the District Court did not have jurisdiction to hear the claim that

plea was not voluntary and intelligent where the defendant failed to file a

motion to withdraw the plea in trial court). Accordingly, we dismiss the

appeal without prejudice so that Appellant can properly seek to withdraw his

plea in the trial court.

      Dismissed without prejudice.

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