Case Name: Issac BURT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2017-09-01
Citations: 225 So. 3d 413
Docket Number: Case No. 5D17-724
Parties: Issac BURT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: COHEN, C. J., WALLIS and EDWARDS, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 225
Pages: 413–413

Head Matter:
Issac BURT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Case No. 5D17-724
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
Opinion filed September 1, 2017
Deana K. Marshall, of Law Office of Deana K. Marshall, P.A., Riverview, for Appellant.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Carmen F. Corrente, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Issac Burt ("Appellant") appeals the trial court's order summarily denying his Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850 motion for postconviction relief alleging ineffective assistance of counsel. We find that the attached records conclusively refute ground one of Appellant's motion. However, we do not find that the attached records conclusively refute the remaining grounds, in which Appellant argued that defense counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to object to repeated improper statements during the State's closing argument (ground two) and by failing to adequately cross-examine the State's expert witness (ground .three). Therefore, we reverse and remand for the trial court to either attach records conclusively refuting grounds two and three or to hold an evidentiary hearing on these grounds. See, e.g., Freeman v. State, 761 So.2d 1055, 1061 (Fla. 2000) ("[A] defendant is entitled to an evidentiary hearing on a postconviction relief motion unless (1) the motion, files, and records in the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitled to no relief, or (2) the motion or a particular claim is legally insufficient.").
AFFIRMED in part; REVERSED in part; REMANDED with Instructions.
COHEN, C. J., WALLIS and EDWARDS, JJ., concur.