Court Opinion

ID: 4422814
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Date Created: 2019-08-05 14:03:40.270801+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:53:02.923428
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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                    STATE OF FLORIDA
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                          No. 1D18-1736
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J. J. III,

     Appellant,

     v.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
AND CONSUMER SERVICES,
DIVISION OF LICENSING,

     Appellee.
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On appeal from an order rendered by the Department of
Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Licensing.

                           August 5, 2019

PER CURIAM.

     After issuing a concealed weapon license to the appellant in
2016, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
revoked the license a year later upon discovering that he had been
convicted of writing a bad check, a felony, in 1979 when he was in
his early twenties. The appellant now appeals the Final Order of
revocation. Despite having a clean record for nearly four decades
after his conviction, the appellant is statutorily ineligible to
possess a firearm or hold a concealed weapon license in the state
of Florida. §§ 790.06(2)(d), .06(10)(c), and .23(1), Fla. Stat. (2019).
We are unable to accord appellant relief, his sole remedy being
with the Office of Executive Clemency, which is empowered to
restore an applicant’s authority to own, possess, or use firearms.

     AFFIRMED.

MAKAR, WINOKUR, 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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J. J. III, pro se, Appellant.

John A. Raymaker, General Counsel, and Leslie B. Fearington,
Senior Attorney, Florida Department of Agriculture and
Consumer Services, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

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