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Hopwood v. State

Hopwood v. State
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided June 14, 1984 · Church, Dauksch, Frank, Sharp
451 So. 2d 534; 1984 Fla. App. LEXIS 13699 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Hopwood v. State

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.

DAUKSCH and FRANK D. UP-CHURCH, Jr., JJ., concur. SHARP, J., dissents with opinion.

Dissenting Opinion

SHARP, Judge,

dissenting.

Hopwood is attempting to appeal from his criminal conviction and sentence rendered after he entered a plea of no contest. He reserved no basis for appeal and does not argue that there is any exception, as set forth in Robinson v. State, 373 So.2d 898 (Fla. 1979), that gives him the right to a direct appeal. Under these circumstances, this court has uniformly dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction. Stinson v. State, *535448 So.2d 1240 (Fla. 5th DCA, 1984). That is what we should do in this case.

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