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Date Created: 2024-04-24 16:03:30.561348+00
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Third District Court of Appeal
                               State of Florida

                         Opinion filed April 24, 2024.
       Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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                             No. 3D22-1421
                      Lower Tribunal No. F15-18110
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                            Brandon Dowdy,
                                  Appellant,

                                     vs.

                         The State of Florida,
                                  Appellee.

      An Appeal under Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.141(b)(2) from
the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Milton Hirsch, Judge.

     Brandon Dowdy, in proper person.

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

Before FERNANDEZ, SCALES and BOKOR, JJ.

     PER CURIAM.
      Affirmed. See Franklin v. State, 137 So. 3d 969, 980 (Fla. 2014)

(explaining that the defendant carries the burden to “overcome the

presumption that, under the circumstances, the challenged action might be

considered sound trial strategy”) (citation omitted); see also Dennis v. State,

109 So. 3d 680, 690 (Fla. 2012) (noting that “counsel cannot be deemed

ineffective for failing to make a meritless argument”).

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