REGINALD BERTRAM JOHNSON, vs THE STATE OF FLORIDA,

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Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida Opinion filed November 20, 2019. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing. ________________ No. 3D19-0635 Lower Tribunal No. 08-15692 ________________ Reginald Bertram Johnson, Appellant, vs. The State of Florida, Appellee. An appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Jose L. Fernandez, Judge. Reginald Bertram Johnson, in proper person. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Michael W. Mervine, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee. Before FERNANDEZ, MILLER, and GORDO, JJ. PER CURIAM. Affirmed. See Smith v. State, 889 So. 2d 1009, 1010 (Fla. 3d DCA 2004) (denying the issuance of a writ of mandamus to compel the production of transcripts where the defendant’s court-appointed counsel “filed a response representing that he ha[d] no such documents”); see also Cassoday v. State, 237 So. 2d 146, 147 (Fla. 1970) (“A transcript of record need not be provided just for perusal or curiosity, nor for the purpose of merely enabling the prisoner to comb the record in the hope of discovering some fl[a]w.”) (citations omitted).

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