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· 12/7/2017

BRUCE LAMAR WRIGHT v. STATE OF FLORIDA

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  • explaining that the petitioner “failed to show that the Supreme Court in Mathis intended to create a new rule upon which the statute of limitations may run”
  • holding Mathis does not apply retroactively to cases on collateral review
  • “An error that may have occurred in calculating the Guidelines range does not constitute a ‘miscarriage of justice’ when the ‘sentence is well below the ceiling imposed by Congress.’ [Citation].”
  • affirming the holdings in Hawkins and Coleman

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