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Third District Court of Appeal
                                State of Florida

                        Opinion filed January 17, 2024.
        Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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                              No. 3D23-432
                       Lower Tribunal No. F96-6088B
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                             Max Lee Brazley,
                                   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, Laura Shearon Cruz, Judge.

     Max Lee Brazley, in proper person.

      Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Richard L. Polin, Assistant
Attorney General, for appellee.

Before FERNANDEZ, SCALES and HENDON, JJ.

FERNANDEZ, J.
     Max Lee Brazley appeals the trial court order denying his motion, filed

pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.802, seeking a sentence

review. Although the trial court mistakenly denied the motion as successive

without record support, we affirm.

     On June 1, 1998, Brazley pled guilty to various offenses, including a

reduced charge of second degree murder, attempted armed robbery, use of

a firearm during the commission of a felony, and possession of a firearm by

a person previously adjudicated delinquent. In exchange for the guilty plea,

Brazley was sentenced to 40 years in state prison in a general sentence.

The sentence was later corrected to reflect a specific sentence for each

count.

     In his most recent motion before the trial court, Brazley claims

entitlement to sentence review based on section 921.1402, Florida Statutes

(2023). He claims that because he was a juvenile at the time of the crime, he

is entitled to review of the 40-year sentence imposed for a crime that he

committed as a juvenile offender. However, section 921.1402 does not apply

to Brazley. See § 921.1402(1), Fla. Stat. (2023) (“For purposes of this

section, the term ‘juvenile offender’ means a person sentenced to

imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for an offense

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committed on or after July 1, 2014, and committed before he or she attained

18 years of age.”)

     Although there are a limited number of cases to which sentence review

may apply for offenses committed before July 1, 2014, Brazley’s is not one

of them. See Brown v. State, 314 So. 3d 380 (Fla. 3d DCA 2020); Pedroza

v. State, 291 So. 3d 541 (Fla. 2020).

     Affirmed.

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