PARKS v. STATE (2018)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Tom Henry PARKS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Case No. 5D18-1557

Decided: June 29, 2018

Tom H. Parks, Perry, pro se. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kellie A. Nielan, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

We affirm the order entered by the circuit court in Case No. 2017-100954-CFDL denying Appellant's Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850 motion for postconviction relief filed in that case, albeit not for the reasons provided by the court. We do so without prejudice to Appellant timely raising in Case No. 2007-000909-CFAWS his instant claim that the forfeiture of gain time by the Department of Corrections (“DOC”) thwarted his plea bargain, as that appears to be the case so affected by the forfeiture. See Dellahoy v. State, 816 So.2d 1253, 1253 (Fla. 5th DCA 2002) (“The DOC's forfeiture of the gain time cannot be countermanded by the court, but neither can that forfeiture thwart the plea bargain.”).

AFFIRMED, without prejudice.

PER CURIAM.

TORPY, WALLIS, and LAMBERT, JJ., concur.

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