Case Name: Kimberly PAGE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2012-06-15
Citations: 90 So. 3d 347
Docket Number: No. 5D11-3065
Parties: Kimberly PAGE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: PALMER, J., concurs.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 90
Pages: 347–348

Head Matter:
Kimberly PAGE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 5D11-3065.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
June 15, 2012.
Kepler B. Funk, Keith F. Szachacz and Alan S. Diamond, of Funk, Szachacz & Diamond, LLC., Melbourne, for Appellant.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Pamela J. Koller, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Ap-pellee.

Opinion:
GRIFFIN, J.
Appellant, Kimberly Page ["Appellant"], seeks review of the trial court's summary denial of Appellant's rule 3.850 motion for postconviction relief. We agree that summary affirmance of claims three and four was proper; however, we conclude that Appellant is entitled to an evidentiary hearing on claims one and two. To be sure, as the trial court said, Appellant was aware that if her attorneys were unable to establish a legal ground for downward departure, her prison sentence would be thirty-seven years instead of the four-to-ten-year plea offer from the State. She was, however, entitled to be competently advised about the prospects of proving the downward departure ground, and she was entitled to competent representation in the sentencing hearing. There is enough in the record to warrant an evidentiary hearing to determine the facts.
AFFIRMED in part; REVERSED in part; and REMANDED.
PALMER, J., concurs.
MONACO, J., dissents, with opinion.