the statute of limitations. Negotiated Plea to a Lesser (and Otherwise Time-Barred) Offense Whether characterized as a waiver or estoppel, Florida’s district courts have held that a defendant who enters a plea to a reduced or lesser offense that would otherwise be time-barred by the statute of limitations eannot raise the statute of limitations for the first time on direct appeal. Oliver v. State, 379 So.2d 143 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980) (applying estoppel principles to hold that defendant, originally charged with first-degree murder, could not assert statute of limitations for first time on appeal where, at defendant’s inducement, trial court accepted negotiated plea to the reduced (and otherwise time-barred) offense of second-degree murder); Morris v. State, 909 So.2d 428 (Fla. 5th DCA 2005) (<HOLDING>); State v. Robbins, 780 So.2d 89 (Fla. 2d DCA
holding under similar circumstances that defendants failure to assert statute of limitations prior to entering a negotiated plea constituted a waiver holding that failure to timely assert attorneyclient privilege constitutes waiver holding that entering a guilty plea is an admission of guilt and a waiver of the right to jury trial holding that negotiated plea agreements that include a sentencing departure are justified under the guidelines in cases where substantial and compelling circumstances exist but a plea agreement standing alone  does not create such circumstances in its own right holding that a failure to file an appeal is within the scope of the waiver because the failure does not undermine the validity of the plea or waiver