Joseph Ragan v. State of Florida
CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
Date FiledNovember 17, 2021
Docket1D21-1081
StatusPublished
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Full Opinion
FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
STATE OF FLORIDA
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No. 1D21-1081
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JOSEPH RAGAN,
Appellant,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Appellee.
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On appeal from the Circuit Court for Leon County.
Kevin J. Carroll, Judge.
November 17, 2021
PER CURIAM.
Joseph Ragan appeals an order summarily denying his motion
to correct illegal sentence filed under Florida Rule of Criminal
Procedure 3.800(a). Ragan asserted that his two, consecutive forty-
five-year sentences for armed robbery were illegal and that the
trial court failed to properly resentence him pursuant to this
court’s mandate in Ragan v. State, 973 So. 2d 648 (Fla. 1st DCA
2008). The trial court determined that Ragan’s sentences were not
illegal because the jury convicted him of armed robbery as a
principal, and because when Ragan committed his offenses, armed
robbery with a firearm was a first-degree felony punishable by up
to life in prison. Ragan’s forty-five-year sentences did not exceed
the statutory maximum and thus were not illegal. Finding no error
by the trial court, we affirm.
We also conclude that this appeal is frivolous. This appeal
marks Ragan’s third collateral attack on his judgment and
sentence in Leon County Circuit Court Case Number 1982-CF-334
since his 2008 resentencing. He appealed orders denying
postconviction relief in cases 1D08-3901 and 1D11-0574. Ragan
received no relief in either of these cases.
The court warns Ragan that any future filings that this court
determines to be frivolous may result in the imposition of
sanctions, including a prohibition against any further pro se filings
in this court and a referral to the appropriate institution or facility
of Florida Department of Corrections for disciplinary procedures.
See § 944.279, Fla. Stat. (2021) (providing that “[a] prisoner who is
found by a court to have brought a frivolous or malicious suit,
action, claim, proceeding, or appeal . . . or to have brought a
frivolous or malicious collateral criminal proceeding . . . is subject
to disciplinary procedures pursuant to the rules of the Department
of Corrections”).
AFFIRMED.
ROWE, C.J., and B.L. THOMAS and RAY, 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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Joseph Ragan, pro se, Appellant.
Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.
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