Case Name: Vincent SELKIRK, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2000-06-21
Citations: 761 So. 2d 1173
Docket Number: No. 4D00-0779
Parties: Vincent SELKIRK, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: FARMER, GROSS and HAZOURI, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 761
Pages: 1173–1174

Head Matter:
Vincent SELKIRK, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 4D00-0779.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
June 21, 2000.
Vincent Selkirk, Indiantown, pro se.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Marrett W. Hanna, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
We affirm the summary denial of Vincent Selkirk's postconviction motion. Af-firmance is without prejudice to file a new motion realleging his reliance on this attorney's misadvice. The order is affirmed with prejudice in all other respects.
By separate order, we granted Selkirk a belated direct appeal from his conviction and sentence in this case. If Selkirk does not prevail in that appeal, he may file a timely postconviction motion after jurisdiction returns to the trial court and again allege that his plea was the product of his attorney's misadvice. Because counsel's reported statement was ambiguous, and Selkirk did not explain what he understood counsel to mean, we cannot say that the trial court erred in finding that the transcript of the change of plea hearing conclusively disproved this claim. If Selkirk files a new motion, he should allege his interpretation of the statement and should further explain whether that understanding was affected by the trial court's advice to him at the change of plea hearing.
FARMER, GROSS and HAZOURI, JJ., concur.