Supreme Court of Florida

Arrington R. Wells v. State of Florida

January 16, 2014132 So. 3d 1110

Summary

The court dismissed Wells's petition because it lacked discretionary jurisdiction to review the First District's unelaborated per curiam dismissal, which merely cited other decisions and did not expressly address a legal question. The court extended its existing jurisdictional rule for unelaborated affirmances and denials to comparable dismissals and authorized administrative dismissal of future petitions in similar cases.