Case ID: so2d_796/html/1214-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Cleophus HOFFMAN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 3D00-3527.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Oct. 10, 2001.
    Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Maria E. Lauredo and Robert God-frey, Assistant Public Defenders, for appellant.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Linda S. Katz, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
    Before COPE and GERSTEN, JJ., and NESBITT, Senior Judge.
   PER CURIAM.

Although the trial court conducted a Nelson inquiry, it is not clear that the trial court ever squarely confronted the question whether appellant had received effective assistance of counsel, and the record indicates that the appellant did not. We reverse the convictions and remand for a new trial.

Reversed and remanded. 
      
      
        Nelson v. State, 274 So.2d 256 (Fla. 4th DCA 1973).