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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Darrell C. BROWN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. BQ-117.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    June 11, 1987.
    Rehearing Denied July 6, 1987.
    Darrell C. Brown, pro se.
    Jefferson W. Morrow, of David & Morrow, Jacksonville, for appellant.
    
      Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Elizabeth Masters, Asst. Attys. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.
   WIGGINTON, Judge.

Appellant appeals the trial court’s summary denial of his motion for post-conviction relief filed pursuant to rule 3.850, Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure. We reverse and remand.

In his motion, appellant alleged ineffective assistance of counsel in that his attorney failed to call certain defense witnesses to attack the credibility of the State’s sole witness against appellant. He attached affidavits of three witnesses, in which the witnesses stated that they had personal knowledge of the State’s witness’s reputation for being untruthful and they had so informed defense counsel. The trial judge denied the motion, stating that the failure to produce the testimony of those witnesses falls into the category of trial tactics.

The allegations in appellant’s motions are sufficiently detailed so that if they are true, he may have satisfied the requirements of Knight v. State, 394 So.2d 997 (Fla.1981). to show ineffective assistance of counsel. We are unable to say that he has not met those requirements since the trial judge did not attach any portion of the record to his order denying relief. See Blanco v. State, 502 So.2d 1374 (Fla. 2d DCA 1987) and Swain v. State, 502 So.2d 494 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987). Therefore, we reverse and remand for the attachment to the order of pertinent portions of the record showing that appellant is not entitled to relief or for further proceedings in accordance with the rule.

JOANOS and ZEHMER, JJ., concur.