Title: Leduan Diaz v. State of Florida

State: florida

Issuer: Florida Supreme Court

Document:

Supreme Court of Florida 
 
 
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No. SC11-1281 
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LEDUAN DIAZ,  
Petitioner, 
 
vs. 
 
STATE OF FLORIDA,  
Respondent. 
 
[November 21, 2012] 
 
PER CURIAM. 
 
In Diaz v. State, 65 So. 3d 1079, 1080 (Fla. 3d DCA 2011), the Third 
District Court of Appeal affirmed the denial of Leduan Diaz’s postconviction 
motion, which claimed “ineffective assistance of counsel due to trial counsel’s 
failure to advise him that accepting a plea would subject him to deportation.”  We 
have jurisdiction.  See art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.; Jollie v. State, 405 So. 2d 418 
(Fla. 1981).  Consistent with our ruling in Hernandez v. State, Nos. SC11-941 & 
SC11-1357 (Fla. Nov. 21, 2012), we approve the Third District’s decision. 
 
It is so ordered. 
 
 
 
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POLSTON, C.J., and PARIENTE, LEWIS, QUINCE, CANADY, LABARGA and 
PERRY, JJ., concur. 
 
 
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION, AND 
IF FILED, DETERMINED.   
 
 
Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal - Direct 
Conflict of Decisions 
 
 
Third District - Case No. 3D10-2563 
 
 
(Miami-Dade County) 
 
Magaly Arias of Polo, Goldstein & Miranda, LLP, Miami, Florida; and Benjamin 
S. Waxman of Robbins, Tunkey, Ross, Amsel, Raben & Waxman, P.A., Miami, 
Florida, 
 
 
for Petitioner 
 
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida, and Kristen Lynn 
Davenport, Wesley Harold Heidt, Assistant Attorneys General, Daytona Beach, 
Florida, Richard L. Polin and Timothy Rhys Morgan Thomas, Assistant Attorneys 
General, Miami, Florida, 
 
 
for Respondent