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Date Created: 2023-12-27 15:02:31.729655+00
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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                STATE OF FLORIDA
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                        No. 1D2023-0355
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JUAN ANTONIO MORALES,

    Appellant,

    v.

STATE OF FLORIDA,

    Appellee.
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On appeal from the Circuit Court for Escambia County.
Linda L. Nobles, Judge.

                       December 27, 2023

PER CURIAM.

     AFFIRMED. This Court’s records reflect that, along with this
appeal from an order imposing sanctions, Juan Morales has filed
at least five postconviction appeals related to Escambia County
Circuit Court case number 2007-CF-5981: Morales v. State, 134 So.
3d 967 (Fla. 1st DCA 2011) (reversing in part order denying rule
3.850 motion); Morales v. State, 187 So. 3d 1237 (Fla. 1st DCA
2015) (unpublished table decision) (affirming order denying rule
3.850 motion); Morales v. State, 237 So. 3d 271 (Fla. 1st DCA 2017)
(unpublished table decision) (affirming order denying          rule
3.800(a) motion); Morales v. State, Case No. 1D18-0169 (Fla. 1st
DCA May 23, 2018) (dismissed for lack of jurisdiction); Morales v.
State, 282 So. 3d 57 (Fla. 1st DCA 2019) (unpublished table
decision) (affirming order denying rule 3.800(a) motion).
     These cases reveal a history of filing repetitious and frivolous
postconviction appeals. The Court warns Morales that any future
filings that this Court determines to be frivolous may result in the
imposition of sanctions, including a prohibition against any
further pro se filings in this Court and a referral to the appropriate
institution for disciplinary procedures. See § 944.279, Fla. Stat.
(2022).

OSTERHAUS, C.J., and ROWE and BILBREY, 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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Juan Antonio Morales, pro se, Appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Daren L. Shippy, Assistant
Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

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