Peter Jay Cardenas v. the State of Florida
CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
Date FiledJuly 22, 2020
Docket3D20-0785
StatusPublished
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Full Opinion
Third District Court of Appeal
State of Florida
Opinion filed July 22, 2020.
Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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No. 3D20-785
Lower Tribunal No. 05-295B
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Peter Jay Cardenas,
Appellant,
vs.
The State of Florida,
Appellee.
An Appeal under Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.141(b)(2) from the
Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Miguel M. de la O, Judge.
Peter Jay Cardenas, in proper person.
Ashley Moody, Attorney General, for appellee.
Before EMAS, C.J., and FERNANDEZ and HENDON, JJ.
PER CURIAM.
Affirmed. See § 775.021, Fla. Stat. (2005) (incorporating the double jeopardy
test established in Blockburger v. United States, 284 U.S. 299 (1932)); Lopez v.
State, 2 So. 3d 1057 (Fla. 3d DCA 2009); Salazar v. State, 675 So. 2d 654 (Fla. 3d
DCA 1996); Atkins v. State, 229 So. 3d 402 (Fla. 1st DCA 2017); Green v. State,
828 So. 2d 462 (Fla. 5th DCA 2002) (holding that separate convictions and sentences
for armed carjacking and burglary of a conveyance with an assault do not violate
section 775.021 or double jeopardy principles, as the crimes of carjacking and
burglary of a conveyance each requires an element that the other does not); Coughlin
v. State, 932 So. 2d 1224, 1226 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006) (rejecting defendant’s claim
that his sentences for attempted first-degree murder and attempted felony-murder
involving the same act and same victim were illegal and cognizable by motion to
correct illegal sentence pursuant to Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.800(a); holding: “Double
jeopardy challenges to convictions are not cognizable under rule 3.800(a) for two
reasons. First, a traditional double jeopardy challenge attacks both the conviction
and, by default, the sentence, while rule 3.800(a) is limited to claims that a sentence
itself is illegal, without regard to the underlying conviction. Second, permitting
defendants to attack their conviction and sentence under rule 3.800(a) would
subsume Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850 into rule 3.800(a), thereby
allowing defendants to circumvent rule 3.850's two-year time bar for attacking their
convictions and sentences.”) (Internal citations omitted.) See also § 775.084(4)(a)1.,
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Fla. Stat. (2005) (providing that the court may sentence a habitual felony offender
up to life imprisonment for a felony of the first degree).
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