Guy Mortimer v. State of Florida
CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
Date FiledJuly 1, 2026
Docket4D2025-2830
StatusPublished
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Full Opinion
DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
FOURTH DISTRICT
GUY MORTIMER,
Appellant,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Appellee.
No. 4D2025-2830
[July 1, 2026]
Appeal of order denying rule 3.850 motion from the Circuit Court for
the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Barbara Duffy, Judge;
L.T. Case No. 062007CF012912C88810.
Guy Mortimer, Perry, pro se.
James Uthmeier, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Luke Robert
Napodano, Senior Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for
appellee.
ON PARTIAL CONFESSION OF ERROR
PER CURIAM.
We accept the State’s partial confession of error and reverse the circuit
court’s order prohibiting appellant from further pro se filing. The State
acknowledges appellant did not receive the court’s order to show cause
under State v. Spencer, 751 So. 2d 47 (Fla. 1999). Appellant is entitled to
an opportunity to be heard, and to make a record for appeal, before the
court imposes sanctions. See Stokes v. State, 50 So. 3d 1234 (Fla. 4th
DCA 2011) (reversing under the same circumstances).
As for the remaining portion of the appeal directed towards the circuit
court’s order denying appellant’s motion to correct illegal sentence, that
appeal is untimely, as the State argues. Thus, we lack jurisdiction to
review that portion of the appeal, which must be dismissed.
Dismissed in part, reversed and remanded in part.
KLINGENSMITH, SHEPHERD and SHAW, JJ., concur.
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Not final until disposition of timely-filed motion for rehearing.
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