Case Name: Henry Jude MANKA, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2004-03-24
Citations: 874 So. 2d 13
Docket Number: No. 4D03-1821
Parties: Henry Jude MANKA, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: SHAHOOD, TAYLOR and HAZOURI, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 874
Pages: 13–14

Head Matter:
Henry Jude MANKA, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 4D03-1821.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
March 24, 2004.
Rehearing Denied June 21, 2004.
Henry Jude Manka, Fort Lauderdale, pro se.
Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Heidi L. Bettendorf, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for Appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Henry Jude Manka appeals a trial court order which denied his motion for post conviction relief filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. We affirm the denial of the motion as it was not properly verified. See Gorham v. State, 494 So.2d 211 (Fla.1986); Scott v. State, 464 So.2d 1171 (Fla.1986). Our af-firmance is on the merits as well, except for appellant's claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel for failure to request a complete self defense jury instruction. We find that this claim was sufficient under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984), and that the trial court erred in rejecting it simply because appellant's co-defendant was convicted in a separate trial where a self defense instruction had been given to the jury.
Therefore, we affirm with prejudice as to all of appellant's other claims, but without prejudice to appellant's right to file a properly verified, amended motion for post conviction relief within thirty days of this court's mandate, raising the claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel for failure to request a self defense jury instruction.
SHAHOOD, TAYLOR and HAZOURI, JJ., concur.