26 So. 3d 519 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions

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1. “(a) .... (b) Time Limitations. A motion to vacate a sentence that exceeds the limits provided by law may be filed at any time. No other motion shall be filed or considered pursuant to this rule if filed more than 2 years after the judgment and sentence become final unless it alleges that (1) the facts on which the claim is predicated were unknown to the movant or the movant’s attorney and could not have been ascertained by the exercise of due diligence, and the claim is made within 2 years of the time the new facts were or could have been discovered with the exercise of due diligence, or (2) .... (3) .... (d) Procedure; Evidentiary Hearing; Disposition. On filing of a rule 3.850 motion, the clerk shall forward the motion and file to the court. If the motion, files, and records in the case conclusively show that the movant is entitled to no relief, the motion shall be denied without a hearing. In those instances when the denial is not predicated on the legal insufficiency of the motion on its face, a copy of that portion of the files and records that conclusively shows that the movant is entitled to no relief shall be attached to the order. ... If the court finds that the judgment was rendered without jurisdiction, that the sentence imposed was not authorized bylaw or is otherwise open to collateral attack, or that there has been such a denial or infringement of the constitutional rights of the movant as to render the judgment vulnerable to collateral attack, the court shall v”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 93 So. 3d 178 - Nordelo v. State

2. “The postconviction trial court appears to have incorrectly applied the heightened requirements to establish due diligence during an evidentiary hearing to evaluate the allegations at a pleading stage. However, permitting a newly discovered evidence claim to proceed to an evidentiary hearing does not establish that the recanted testimony qualifies as newly discovered evidence as a matter of law. See Swafford, 679 So.2d at 739 . The newly discovered evidence claim remains to be factually tested in an evidentiary hearing to determine whether the defendant has demonstrated that the successive motion has been filed within the time limit for when the statement was or could have been discovered through the exercise of due diligence. See id. The motion here was sufficiently pled to allow the opportunity to prove through the testimony of witnesses that the threshold requirement of due diligence was satisfied. Accordingly, the postconviction trial court erred in summarily denying this claim on the basis that the pleading failed to sufficiently satisfy the due diligence requirement at that stage of the proceeding.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. NORDELO v. State

3. “Here, as in Swafford [v. State, 679 So.2d 736 (Fla.1996),] the State’s only argument to dispute due diligence was that defense counsel had “years” to find the witness. See id. Regardless of the time span from the time of trial to the discovery of the new testimony, recanted testimony cannot be “discovered” until the witness chooses to recant. See Burns v. State, 858 So.2d 1229, 1230 (Fla. 1st DCA 2003) (“Even though the appellant knew at trial that the codefen-dant was lying, the appellant could not have gotten the codefendant to admit that he was lying earlier, and thus the recantation is newly discovered evidence that could not have been obtained earlier with due diligence.”). Logically, even if counsel had or could have located these witnesses at an earlier date such earlier date does not conclusively establish that the witnesses would have recanted their testimony at that earlier time.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. NORDELO v. State