Carl Harrison Seale Jr. v. State of Florida
CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
Date FiledFebruary 18, 2021
Docket1D20-1622
StatusPublished
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Full Opinion
FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
STATE OF FLORIDA
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No. 1D20-1622
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CARL HARRISON SEALE JR.,
Appellant,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Appellee.
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On appeal from the Circuit Court for Bay County.
Christopher N. Patterson, Judge.
February 18, 2021
PER CURIAM.
Appellant challenges the trial court’s order denying his
amended post-conviction motion to vacate, set aside, or correct
sentence. He alleges his sentence of 60 months of drug offender
probation is illegal because his offense of aggravated stalking is a
disqualifying crime for drug offender probation. Finding
Appellant’s claim is barred by the law of the case and collateral
estoppel, we affirm. See State v. McBride, 848 So. 2d 287, 289–91
(Fla. 2003).
Appellant has raised this claim before. He preserved this
claim in a rule 3.800(b) motion and, upon denial, raised the claim
in his direct appeal, which this Court affirmed. Seale v. State, 276
So. 3d 275 (Fla. 1st DCA 2019). A defendant is barred by collateral
estoppel from raising a claim in a subsequent 3.800 motion that
has already been raised and decided on the merits. McBride, 848
So. 2d at 289-91. Further, upon affirmance of Appellant’s judgment
and sentence, the legality of the drug offender probation and
special conditions, which were imposed in the original sentence
and challenged on appeal, became law of the case. Id.
Concerning the legality of Appellant’s sentence, Appellant
agreed to the sentence and felony drug offender probation as part
of his request for downward departure sentencing consideration.
Specifically, Appellant agreed to drug offender community control
as part of his November 14, 2018, plea and again as part of his
April 11, 2019, plea on a violation of probation offense. Because
Appellant agreed to the sentence he received, the sentence is not
illegal. See Carson v. State, 37 So. 3d 884, 886 (Fla. 1st DCA 2010)
(“In our view, it is not ‘illegal’ to allow a defendant to agree to serve
a special type of probation, e.g., because of a substance abuse
problem, even though the trial court could not impose such a
condition on an unwilling defendant convicted at trial.” (emphasis
in original)).
AFFIRMED.
ROWE, M.K. THOMAS, and NORDBY, JJ., concur.
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Not final until disposition of any timely and
authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or
9.331.
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Carl Harrison Seale Jr., pro se, Appellant.
Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Sharon S. Traxler, Assistant
Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.
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