Bryant v. State

Bryant v. State, 780 So. 2d 978 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2001)

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida · State Appellate Courts
Decided: March 9, 2001
Docket: No. 5D00-2580
Judges: Thompson
Citations: 780 So. 2d 9782001 WL 227348

Cited by 5 4 descriptions by later courts

Opinion

780 So.2d 978 (2001)

Johnny Lenard BRYANT, Appellant,

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 5D00-2580.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

March 9, 2001.

Johnny Lenard Bryant, Lowell, pro se.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Belle B. Schumann, *979 Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

THOMPSON, C.J.

Johnny Lenard Bryant appeals from the denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus by the circuit court of the Fifth Judicial Circuit. We affirm. The proper jurisdiction for this case was in the circuit court of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit.

Bryant was convicted in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit (Broward County) of sexual battery. The trial court sentenced him in 1978 to 99 years in the Department of Corrections. Bryant alleges that he is being illegally detained because the information in his case was defective in that it failed to allege a felony crime. Further, he contends that his lawyer was ineffective for failing to object to the defective information.

We agree with the trial court that Bryant is collaterally attacking his judgment and sentence and that the proper method to do so was to file a motion pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. See Patterson v. State, 664 So.2d 31, 32 (Fla. 4th DCA 1995). The trial court also noted correctly that the proper venue for the motion was the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, which was where the sentence was imposed. See Leichtman v. Singletary, 674 So.2d 889, 892 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996). Furthermore, a petition for habeas corpus cannot be used to circumvent the two-year period for filing motions for post-conviction relief. See Calloway v. State, 699 So.2d 849 (Fla. 3d DCA 1997).

AFFIRMED.

HARRIS and PLEUS, JJ., concur.

How later courts describe this case

Explanatory parentheticals written by citing courts — 4 in all; the most informative distinct ones are shown.

("[A] petition for habeas corpus cannot be used to circumvent the two-year period for filing motions for post-conviction relief")

Duncan v. Walker, 533 U.S. 167 (2001)
(affirming the trial court's denial of the habeas corpus petition and agreeing with the trial court that Bryant was collaterally attacking his judgment and sentence, and the method was to file a timely 3.850 motion in the proper venue where sentence had been imposed)

Curry v. State, 846 So. 2d 1189 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2003)

Cited by 5 cases

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Curry v. State846 So. 2d 1189 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2003)
Duncan v. Walker533 U.S. 167 (2001)
Richardson v. State918 So. 2d 999 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2006)
Collins v. State859 So. 2d 1244 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2003)
Robinson v. State963 So. 2d 291 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2007)

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Robinson v. State963 So. 2d 291 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2007)
Richardson v. State918 So. 2d 999 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2006)
Collins v. State859 So. 2d 1244 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2003)
Curry v. State846 So. 2d 1189 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2003)
Duncan v. Walker533 U.S. 167 (2001)

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Authorities cited 3

Depth	Case	Cited by
	Leichtman v. Singletary, 674 So. 2d 889 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1996)	42
	Calloway v. State, 699 So. 2d 849 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1997)	18
	Patterson v. State, 664 So. 2d 31 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1995)	15

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