
    Francisco FUSTER-ESCALONA, Appellant, v. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Appellee.
    No. 1D04-2213.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    Jan. 27, 2005.
    Francisco Fuster-Escalona, pro se, appellant.
    Charlie Crist, Attorney General, and Joy A. Stubbs, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

The order of dismissal is reversed on the authority of Burgess v. Crosby, 870 So.2d 217 (Fla. 1st DCA 2004). The case is remanded to the Circuit Court for Leon County for a decision on the merits.

REVERSED.

BENTON and LEWIS, JJ., concur.

THOMAS, J., concurs in result by written opinion.

THOMAS, J.,

concurs.

I concur in the result based on Burgess v. Crosby, 870 So.2d 217 (Fla. 1st DCA 2004), and Davidson v. Crosby, 883 So.2d 866 (Fla. 1st DCA 2004). If this issue had not been previously and definitively resolved, I would vote to affirm based on the dissenting opinion in Burgess, which I believe correctly applies the holding in Schmidt v. Crusoe, 878 So.2d 361 (Fla.2003).  