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963 So. 2d 356

Docket No. 5D07-1088.

Wills v. State

Teresa Lynn WILLS, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided August 24, 2007.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 2007-08-24

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently May 2010

2 state decisions

Relies on 660 So. 2d 703 - Abreu v. State · 840 So. 2d 1160 - Timmer v. State

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Decided 2007-08-24

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¶1Teresa L. Wills, Ocala, pro se.

¶2Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Rebecca Roark Wall, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Respondent.

¶3MONACO, J.

¶4The petitioner, Teresa Lynn Wills, seeks certiorari review of an order of the trial court denying her motion pursuant to rule 3.800(c), Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure, on jurisdictional grounds. Essentially, Ms. Wills timely filed her rule 3.800(c) motion, but the sixty-day time limit contained within the rule elapsed before the trial court could address its merits. The State properly concedes that the trial court should have sua sponte enlarged the time within which to have a hearing on the motion in accordance with Abreu v. State,660 So.2d 703 (Fla.1995), and Timmer v. State,840 So.2d 1160 (Fla. 5th DCA 2003). Accordingly, we grant certiorari, quash the trial court's order denying relief, and remand this matter for the trial court to consider the motion on the merits.

¶5WRIT GRANTED.

¶6SAWAYA and ORFINGER, JJ., concur.

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