Case Name: Jimmy McDOWELL, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2005-06-29
Citations: 905 So. 2d 999
Docket Number: No. 4D04-4127
Parties: Jimmy McDOWELL, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: GUNTHER, STEVENSON and TAYLOR, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 905
Pages: 999–999

Head Matter:
Jimmy McDOWELL, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 4D04-4127.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
June 29, 2005.
Jimmy McDowell, Belle Glade, pro se.
Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and David M. Schultz, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Jimmy McDowell appeals the trial court's summary denial of his Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850 motion for post-conviction relief. The motion raised several claims of ineffective assistance of counsel. We reverse and remand for the trial court's further review of points four and five.
Point four concerns McDowell's claim that his trial counsel interfered with his right to testify by threatening to withdraw from the ease. Point five presents McDowell's claim that counsel failed to advise him, at the time he was considering a favorable plea offer, of potential prison releasee reoffender sentencing. He alleged that he would have accepted the state's plea offer had he known he was facing a life sentence as a prison releasee reoffender. The state concedes that McDowell's claim on this point is legally sufficient and warrants further review. We find that both claims are legally sufficient and remand for an evidentiary hearing. Oisorio v. State, 676 So.2d 1363, 1364-65 (Fla.1996); Kleppinger v. State, 884 So.2d 146 (Fla. 2d DCA 2004).
GUNTHER, STEVENSON and TAYLOR, JJ., concur.