Derrick Grantley v. the State of Florida
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Opinion
Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida
Opinion filed July 30, 2025. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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No. 3D24-0910 Lower Tribunal Nos. F98-3144B & F98-5013 ________________
Derrick Grantley, Appellant,
vs.
The State of Florida, Appellee.
An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Milton Hirsch, Judge.
Derrick Grantley, in proper person.
James Uthmeier, Attorney General, and Yolande M. Samerson, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
Before FERNANDEZ, LINDSEY, and MILLER, JJ.
PER CURIAM. Affirmed. See Johnson v. State, 915 So. 2d 682, 684 (Fla. 3d DCA
2005) (“After repeated denials of multiple, successive filings, there comes a
point where ‘enough is enough.’ Based upon careful review of defendant’s
filings in this court, we conclude that defendant has reached that point.”)
(quoting Isley v. State, 652 So. 2d 409, 410–11 (Fla. 5th DCA 1995)) (citation
omitted); Horvatt v. State, 325 So. 3d 91, 92–93 (Fla. 5th DCA 2019) (barring
the defendant from further pro se filings after finding “apparent abuse of the
legal process by . . . abusive, repetitive, malicious, or frivolous pro se filings
attacking his sentence”); Wimberly v. State, 50 So. 3d 785, 786–88 (Fla. 4th
DCA 2010) (finding an “abuse of the post-conviction process” and
“prohibiting further pro se filings” following “a campaign of filing motions for
post-conviction relief” and one belated appeal even though not all claims
were “identical”); Proctor v. State, 869 So. 2d 752, 753 (Fla. 5th DCA 2004)
(“We do not take the action of barring a defendant from further pro se
pleadings lightly. However, [e]nough is enough. Finding no merit in [the
defendant]’s numerous filings, we must hold that his successive challenges
to his judgments and sentence constitute an abuse of the judicial system.”)
(quotation marks and citation omitted).
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