Tommie McClenney Jr. v. State of Florida

• Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida
• Decided: July 30, 2025
• Docket: 3D2025-1224
• Status: Published

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. 3D25-1224 Lower Tribunal No. F08-41705 ________________

Tommie McClenney Jr., Petitioner,

vs.

The State of Florida, Respondent.

A Case of Original Jurisdiction – Habeas Corpus.

Tommie McClenney Jr., in proper person.

James Uthmeier, Attorney General, and Sandra Lipman, Senior Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.

Before MILLER, GORDO, and LOBREE, JJ.

PER CURIAM. Dismissed. See Johnson v. Singletary, 647 So. 2d 106, 109 (Fla.

1994) (“Successive habeas corpus petitions seeking the same relief are not

permitted nor can new claims be raised in a second petition when the

circumstances upon which they are based were known or should have been

known at the time the prior petition was filed.”); Dawson v. State, 121 So. 3d

63, 65 (Fla. 3d DCA 2013) (“Dawson asserts the jury instruction was

defective . . . . However, such a claim of judicial error is procedurally barred

if not raised on direct appeal.”) (citation omitted); Johnson v. State, 649 So.

2d 948, 948 (Fla. 3d DCA 1995) (“Appellant’s claim of error in the jury

instructions is an issue which is cognizable by direct appeal, not by motion

for postconviction relief.”); Beiro v. State, 289 So. 3d 511, 511 (Fla. 3d DCA

2019) (“Although Beiro acknowledges that the instant petition is both

successive and untimely, he contends that these procedural bars should be

relaxed to correct a manifest injustice. Beiro is incorrect. The mere

incantation of the words ‘manifest injustice’ does not make it so.”).