MENDES v. STATE

No. 4D00-2132.

770 So.2d 202 (2000)

Victor MENDES, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied November 15, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor Mendes, Miami, pro se.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Claudine M. LaFrance, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

We reverse the summary denial of Victor Mendes' amended motion for postconviction relief. The trial court denied the motion as untimely even though our previous opinion had given Mendes leave to file the amendment. Mendes v. State, 734 So.2d 1168 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999). Since that opinion placed no limitation on when the amended motion could be filed, we cannot agree that the amendment filed almost eight months later...

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