Charles Clark v. State of Florida
CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
Date FiledOctober 11, 2023
Docket2D2023-1255
StatusPublished
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DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA
SECOND DISTRICT
CHARLES J. CLARK,
Appellant,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Appellee.
No. 2D23-1255
October 11, 2023
Appeal pursuant to Fla. R. App. P. 9.141(b)(2) from the Circuit Court for
Sarasota County; Donna Marie Padar, Judge.
Charles J. Clark, pro se.
LABRIT, Judge.
Charles J. Clark appeals an order denying his motion to correct
illegal sentence filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure
3.800(a). We affirm without comment the portion of the postconviction
court's order finding that Clark's motion was not cognizable pursuant to
rule 3.800(a). We also affirm the court's finding that Clark's motion
could not be considered pursuant to rule 3.850 but write to address an
oversight in some final orders issued by courts in our district disposing
of rule 3.850 motions and claims on procedural grounds.
We remind postconviction courts that they are required to attach to
orders finding that a motion or claim is either untimely under rule
3.850(b) or improperly successive under rule 3.850(h), portions of the
trial court record supporting those findings. See Fla. R. Crim. P.
3.850(h)(2) ("When a motion is dismissed under this subdivision, a copy
of that portion of the files and records necessary to support the court's
ruling shall accompany the order denying the motion."); see also Fla. R.
App. P. 9.141(b)(2)(D) ("[U]nless the record shows conclusively that the
appellant is entitled to no relief, the order shall be reversed and the
cause remanded for an evidentiary hearing or other appropriate relief.").
Failure to do so may subject orders to reversal to either attach
supporting documents from the trial court record or consider rule 3.850
claims on the merits. See Love v. State, 264 So. 3d 1182, 1183 (Fla. 2d
DCA 2019) ("[T]he court did not attach to its order any documents—such
as Love's previous motion and the order denying it—to demonstrate the
successiveness of Love's claim."); Green v. State, 985 So. 2d 1155, 1155
(Fla. 3d DCA 2008) ("[T]he record does not conclusively demonstrate that
the defendant's motion was untimely.").1
Affirmed.
LaROSE and LUCAS, JJ., Concur.
Opinion subject to revision prior to official publication.
1 No trial court records were attached to the postconviction court's
order in this case. We affirmed the portion of the court's order finding
that Clark's motion could not be considered pursuant to rule 3.850 by
exercising our discretion to take judicial notice of our own record in
Clark's direct appeal which established that his motion was untimely
under rule 3.850(b).
2