CLAYTON v. STATE (2021)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Ashley CLAYTON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Case No. 5D20-1883

Decided: November 12, 2021

Matthew J. Metz, Public Defender, Craig R. Atack and George D.E. Burden, Assistant Public Defenders, Daytona Beach, for Appellant. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Richard A Pallas, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

Ashley Clayton entered a no-contest plea which resulted in the trial court designating her a habitual felony offender. She has not filed a motion to withdraw her plea. In this Anders ¹ appeal, we affirm the trial court's judgments and sentences without prejudice for her to challenge the voluntariness of her plea via motion for postconviction relief if she can do so in good faith. See Leonard v. State, 760 So. 2d 114, 119 (Fla. 2000); Kendrick v. State, 204 So. 3d 486, 486 (Fla. 5th DCA 2016).

AFFIRMED.

FOOTNOTES

1. Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967).

PER CURIAM.

COHEN, TRAVER and WOZNIAK, JJ., concur.

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