John J. Wilson, Jr. v. the State of Florida
CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
Date FiledApril 22, 2020
Docket3D19-1715
StatusPublished
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Full Opinion
Third District Court of Appeal
State of Florida
Opinion filed April 22, 2020.
Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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No. 3D19-1715
Lower Tribunal No. 15-1083
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John J. Wilson, Jr.,
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, Cristina Miranda, Judge.
John J. Wilson, Jr., in proper person.
Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Michael W. Mervine, Assistant
Attorney General, for appellee.
Before FERNANDEZ, LOGUE and SCALES, JJ.
PER CURIAM.
On or about January 15, 2019, appellant John J. Wilson, Jr. filed in the lower
court, pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800, a pro se post-
conviction motion that presumably asserted his sentence was illegal. A review of
the lower court docket reflects that the lower court clerk received this motion on or
about January 25, 2019.
On August 21, 2019, Wilson filed with this Court a pro se notice of appeal,
entitled “Notice of Appeal and Statement of Judicial Acts to Be Reviewed Pursuant
to Rule 9.200(A)(3): The Underlying Motion for this Appeal, Submitted Pursuant to
Rule 3.800(a), Was Failed to Be Recorded or Docketed By the Clerk of Court.”
We ordered the State to respond. The State’s response indicated that, despite
there being several other proceedings in this Court and the Florida Supreme Court,1
as well as in the lower court during the relevant time period, no written order
adjudicating Wilson’s January 2019 post-conviction motion had been rendered by
the trial court. 2 After filing its response, the State filed a motion to supplement the
record on appeal to include a February 27, 2020 order entered by the trial court
denying Wilson’s January 25, 2019 Rule 3.800(a) motion “nunc pro tunc 6/11/19.”
1
See 3D19-1579 and SC19-1857/SC18-2119.
2
Oddly, a May 21, 2019 lower court docket entry indicates both that Wilson’s
motion was set for hearing on June 11, 2019, and that the motion was denied.
2
We treat Wilson's August 2019 notice of appeal as a petition for writ of
mandamus, see Fla. R. App. P. 9.040(c), and, given the trial court’s February 27,
2020 order, deny same as moot.
So ordered.
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