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Derrick L. ABERNATHY, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 2D00-609.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
    June 30, 2000.
   PER CURIAM.

Derrick L. Abernathy appeals the summary denial of his motion for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. We have carefully reviewed his motion and the trial court’s order denying it. We affirm.

Although we do not agree with all of the grounds given by the trial court for denying Abernathy’s claim that counsel misad-vised him as to the possibility of habitual offender sentencing, we do agree that Abernathy’s claim is facially insufficient. See Davis v. State, 697 So.2d 957, 958 (Fla. 2d DCA 1997) (noting that claimant is required to establish prejudice from alleged bad legal advice, and absent allegation that he or she would have rejected plea offer had proper advice been given, showing of prejudice is not made and claim may be denied as facially insufficient). Moreover, we disagree with the trial court’s conclusion that Abernathy failed to allege prejudice in his claim regarding the timeliness of the State’s notice of intent to seek habitualization. However, we conclude that the record attachments refute his claim because they demonstrate he was sentenced as a habitual offender over a month after the State filed its notice.

Affirmed.

PARKER, A.C.J., and BLUE and DAVIS, JJ., Concur.