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GASKINS v. STATE

No. 2D06-5348.

970 So.2d 916 (2007)

Norman GASKINS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

December 28, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and John C. Fisher, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Helene S. Parnes, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.

ALTENBERND, Judge.

Norman Gaskins appeals an order dismissing his petition for habeas corpus, which he filed in the sentencing court and not in the court with jurisdiction over his place of confinement. The circuit court dismissed the petition as an improper vehicle for raising issues that could have been raised on direct appeal or through postconviction proceedings.

The circuit court should have treated the petition...

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