JAMES ROBERTS v. THE STATE OF FLORIDA

• Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida
• Decided: December 29, 2021
• Docket: 21-0860
• Status: Published

Opinion

Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida

Opinion filed December 29, 2021. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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No. 3D21-0860 Lower Tribunal No. F00-11088C ________________

James Roberts, Appellant,

vs.

The State of Florida, Appellee.

An Appeal under Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.141(b)(2) from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Tanya Brinkley, Judge.

MHK Legal, PLLC, and Mark H. Klein (Coral Springs), for appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Ivy R. Ginsberg, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Before LOGUE, SCALES, and LINDSEY, JJ.

LINDSEY, J. James Tyrone Roberts appeals from a summary denial of his motion

to correct an illegal sentence. The trial court denied his motion because it

“rais[ed] the same exact claims upon the same exact grounds . . . remains

successive, and constitutes similar claims previously raised in more than one

motion.” Pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a)(2):

A court may dismiss a second or successive motion if the court finds that the motion fails to allege new or different grounds for relief and the prior determination was on the merits. When a motion is dismissed under this subdivision, a copy of that portion of the files and records necessary to support the court’s ruling must accompany the order dismissing the motion.

We agree with the trial court that that Appellant’s motion sought review

of an issue already decided on the merits. And because the trial court

provided the files and record to support its ruling, we affirm. See Roberts v.

State, 107 So. 3d 421 (Fla. 3d DCA 2013); Roberts v. State, 60 So. 3d 402

(Fla. 3d DCA 2011); Roberts v. State, 990 So. 2d 573 (Fla. 3d DCA 2008);

Roberts v. State, 963 So. 2d 849 (Fla. 3d DCA 2007); Roberts v. State, 903

So. 2d 944 (Fla. 3d DCA 2005); Roberts v. State., 990 So. 2d 573, 573 (Fla.

3d DCA 2008) (Cope, J., concurring) (“In 2006, the defendant filed an

Amendment to Motion to Correct Illegal Sentence which was treated as a

second rule 3.800(a) motion. It challenged the imposition of his twenty-five

year mandatory minimum sentence under the ten-twenty-life law. The denial

2 of that motion was affirmed on the merits by this court. Roberts v. State, 963

So. 2d 849 (Fla. 3d DCA 2007).”). Additionally, we find that Appellant’s

underlying claim is legally insufficient.

Affirmed.