Upshaw v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “In Alfonso v. Department of Environmental Regulation, 616 So.2d 44 (Fla. 1993), the supreme court considered the effect of article V, section 2(a), of the Florida Constitution when a paper purporting to invoke appellate jurisdiction had been filed in the wrong court and explicitly held that: an appellate court's jurisdiction is invoked by a timely filing of a notice of appeal or a petition for certiorari in either the lower court that issued the order to be reviewed or the appellate court which would have jurisdiction to review the order. 616 So.2d at 47 (emphasis added). Under this holding, the notice of appeal timely filed with the clerk of the circuit court in Alachua County did not validly invoke this court's appellate jurisdiction because that court is not the lower court that issued the order to be reviewed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 755 So. 2d 85 - Kaweblum v. THORNHILL ESTATES HOMEOWNERS ASSOC., INC.