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Johnson v. State, No. 4D08-3531 (Fla. App. 3/11/2009) (Fla. App., 2009)

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MICHAEL JOHNSON, Petitioner, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Respondent. No. 4D08-3531. District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District. March 11, 2009. Petition for writ of habeas corpus to the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County, Jeffrey R. Levenson, Judge, L.T. Case No. 91-4365CF10A. Michael Johnson, Miami, pro se. Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Mark J. Hamel, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for respondent. FARMER, J. Defendant filed this case as an appeal from a trial court order denying a successive motion to correct an illegal sentence. See Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.800(a). Johnson’s sentence had been affirmed on direct appeal. Since then he has raised this same issue of illegality in three separate attempts, all of which we have rejected...continue to full post

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