VALDEZ-GARCIA v. STATE

No. 2D06-2441.

965 So.2d 318 (2007)

Luis VALDEZ-GARCIA, a/k/a Luis Garcia-Valdez, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

September 19, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Luis Valdez-Garcia, pro se.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jonathan P. Hurley, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


ALTENBERND, Judge.

Luis Valdez-Garcia, a/k/a Luis Garcia-Valdez, appeals an order dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus for lack of jurisdiction. Mr. Garcia filed his petition in the circuit court of the county in which he was convicted rather than the circuit court of the county in which he was incarcerated. We affirm.

The circuit court correctly determined that it did not have jurisdiction to treat the petition as a petition for a writ of habeas...

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