ANCRUM v. FLORIDA COMMISSION ON OFFENDER REVIEW (2019)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Arnold ANCRUM, Appellant, v. FLORIDA COMMISSION ON OFFENDER REVIEW, Appellee.

No. 3D18-2249

Decided: July 17, 2019

Before EMAS, C.J., and FERNANDEZ and GORDO, JJ.

Arnold Ancrum, in proper person. Rana Wallace, General Counsel, and Mark Hiers (Tallahassee), Assistant General Counsel, for appellee.

Affirmed. See Art. IV, § 8(c), Fla. Const. (2018) (providing: “There may be created by law a parole and probation commission with power to supervise persons on probation and to grant paroles or conditional releases to persons under sentences for crime. The qualifications, method of selection and terms, not to exceed six years, of members of the commission shall be prescribed by law”); Mayes v. Moore, 827 So.2d 967 (Fla. 2002) (holding that the commission's authority derives from the Florida Constitution, not the Florida Legislature); Harvin v. State, 690 So.2d 652 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997) (same). See also Gibson v. Florida Parole Comm'n, 895 So.2d 1291, 1291 (Fla. 5th DCA 2005), and cases cited (holding: “[T]he proper method of obtaining review of [the Commission's] decision is by means of a petition for writ of mandamus filed in the circuit court in and for Leon County, Florida.”)

PER CURIAM.

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