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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                 STATE OF FLORIDA
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                         No. 1D2023-0414
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DAVID MACK III,

    Petitioner,

    v.

STATE OF FLORIDA,

    Respondent.
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Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus—Original Jurisdiction.
Mark W. Moseley, Judge.

                        February 21, 2024

TANENBAUM, J.

     The petitioner claims his appellate counsel missed an issue
that in fact was identified in the Anders brief filed by that counsel
in his underlying direct appeal to this court. This court affirmed in
that case. There simply cannot be a cognizable claim for ineffective
assistance of appellate counsel in this situation because the panel
in the underlying appeal presumably conducted its own “full and
independent review of the record to discover any arguable issues
apparent on the face of the record.” In re Anders Briefs, 581 So. 2d
149, 151 (Fla. 1991) (citing Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 744
(1967)); see Towbridge v. State, 45 So. 3d 484, 487 (Fla. 1st DCA
2010) (explaining that “with respect to an issue that was apparent
on the face of the record,” there is not a cognizable claim “because
the issue was necessarily considered by the court in its Anders
review,” especially “where, as here, the issue that is the basis of
the claim of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel was
identified by counsel in the Anders brief”). Under this mandated
process, an affirmance by the appellate court in essence is the
court’s determination that the appellant has received his
constitutionally guaranteed right to effective assistance from
counsel. The same appellant does not later get a second bite of that
apple through Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.141(d).

    DISMISSED.

B.L. THOMAS and M.K. THOMAS, 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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David Mack III, pro se, Appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

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