5D06-1700 Gregory Cothron v. State

State: Florida

Court: Florida Fifth District Court

Docket No: 5D06-1700

Case Date: 01/22/2007

Preview:IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FIFTH DISTRICT JANUARY TERM 2007

GREGORY A. COTHRON, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. ________________________________/ Opinion filed January 26, 2007 Appeal from the Circuit Court for Putnam County, Terry Larue, Judge. Gregory A. Cothron, Florida City, pro se. Bill McCollum , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kellie A. Nielan, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee. Case No. 5D06-1700

PER CURIAM. Gregory A. Cothron, the appellant, was convicted of sexual battery and burglary of a dwelling with a battery in 1990. When he sought review of a denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus by the trial court, we issued a Spencer1 order, requiring him to show cause why he should not be denied further pro se access to this Court for any proceeding further attacking the convictions and sentences associated with the subject

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See State v. Spencer, 751 So. 2d 47 (Fla. 1999).

conviction. We pointed out in our earlier order that his appeal is totally without merit, and constitutes only the most recent of his twenty-six attacks on his judgment and sentence. Mr. Cothron's response to the show cause order shows no reason why the sanction threatened should not be imposed. Mr. Cothron has seriously abused the trial and appellate processes of both the state and federal judicial systems, and has wasted the finite resources of the courts in his meritless and repetitive assaults on his judgment and sentence. After twenty-six proceedings covering sixteen years, it is clear that this matter must now be laid to rest. Accordingly: (1) The order of the trial court denying h is petition for writ of habeas corpus is affirmed. (2) Mr. Cothron is barred from further pro se filings in this Court involving his 1990 case because his pleadings have become an abuse of process. See Criminal Appeal Reform Act of 1996,

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