Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2015-01-21 16:04:26.78247+00
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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

JAMES L. JOHNSON,                               )
                                                )
              Appellant,                        )
                                                )
v.                                              )        Case No. 2D13-722
                                                )
STATE OF FLORIDA,                               )
                                                )
              Appellee.                         )
                                                )

Opinion filed January 21, 2015.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Pinellas
County; Philip J. Federico, Judge.

Howard L. Dimmig, II, Public Defender, and
Julius J. Aulisio, Assistant Public Defender,
Bartow, for Appellant.

James L. Johnson, pro se.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General,
Tallahassee, for Appellee.

CASANUEVA, Judge.

              We affirm James L. Johnson's judgments and sentences in this Anders1

appeal without discussion. However, this affirmance is without prejudice to Johnson

              1
                  Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967).
filing a facially sufficient motion seeking additional jail time credit pursuant to Florida

Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.801.

                During the pendency of this appeal, Johnson filed a pro se "Petition to

Correct Jail Credits," pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a).2 The

circuit court properly struck this motion because it was filed during the pendency of an

appeal. See Scott v. State, 976 So. 2d 628 (Fla. 2d DCA 2008). The circuit court also

noted that Johnson's motion was filed prior to the effective date of rule 3.801, requiring

that all jail credit claims be raised pursuant to that new rule.

                For sentences imposed prior to July 1, 2013, as in Johnson's case, the

time for filing a rule 3.801 motion expired on July 1, 2014. Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.801(b).

Because this deadline expired during the pendency of this appeal, we affirm without

prejudice to Johnson filing a facially sufficient rule 3.801 motion within thirty days of the

issuance of this court's mandate. See Vincent v. State, 149 So. 3d 1151 (Fla. 4th DCA

2014). A motion filed within this time will not be deemed untimely or successive.

                Affirmed without prejudice.

WALLACE and SLEET, JJ., Concur.

                2
                    Johnson also raised the issue of additional jail credit time in his pro se
Anders brief.

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