Case Name: Eddie DANIELS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2006-03-15
Citations: 923 So. 2d 554
Docket Number: No. 4D05-3798
Parties: Eddie DANIELS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: STEVENSON, C.J., GROSS and MAY, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 923
Pages: 554–555

Head Matter:
Eddie DANIELS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 4D05-3798.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
March 15, 2006.
Eddie Daniels, Montieello, pro se.
Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melanie Dale Surber, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Eddie Daniels appeals an order summarily denying his rule 3.850 motion for postconviction relief. We affirm the summary denial of three of his four grounds without further discussion. We reverse, however, as to the third ground, wherein he claimed defense counsel was ineffective for failing to inform him he could assert the insanity defense at trial and alleged, had he known he could assert such defense, he would not have entered his no contest plea. See Spencer v. State, 889 So.2d 868 (Fla. 2d DCA 2004) (reversing summary denial of postconviction motion claiming ineffective assistance of counsel for misinforming defendant that there was no available defense when, in fact, insanity defense was available, and for failing to have him tested to determine his competency at the time of the crimes). We remand for either an evidentiary hearing or the attachment of portions of the record conclusively refuting this ground for relief.
Affirmed in part; Reversed in part; and Remanded.
STEVENSON, C.J., GROSS and MAY, JJ., concur.