LEACH v. STATE (2025)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Duane M. LEACH, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

No. 3D24-1597

Decided: January 02, 2025

Before LOGUE, C.J., and MILLER and GOODEN, JJ.

Duane M. Leach, in proper person. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Linda Katz, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.

Duane M. Leach petitions this Court for a writ of habeas corpus attacking his 1985 conviction and sentence based upon manifest injustice. Lightner v. State, 306 So. 3d 1019, 1021 (Fla. 3d DCA 2020) (“Under Florida law, appellate courts have the authority to correct a manifest injustice by way of habeas corpus.”). Nevertheless, this exception only applies to a narrow category of cases. The “mere incantation of the words ‘manifest injustice’ does not make it so.” Beiro v. State, 289 So. 3d 511, 511 (Fla. 3d DCA 2019). Finding this case does not fall within this narrow exception and no manifest injustice occurred, we hereby deny the petition.

Petition denied.

PER CURIAM.

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