Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2015-07-30 21:17:09.229862+00
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DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
                             FOURTH DISTRICT

                         PETER CUNNINGHAM,
                              Appellant,

                                    v.

                          STATE OF FLORIDA,
                               Appellee.

                             No. 4D14-4124

                             [July 29, 2015]

   Appeal of order denying rule 3.850 motion from the Circuit Court for
the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Ilona M. Holmes,
Judge; L.T. Case No. 04-9086 CF10A.

   Peter Cunningham, Milton, pro se.

   Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Mitchell A. Egber,
Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

   Peter Cunningham, convicted of second degree murder and two counts
of attempted manslaughter with a firearm, appeals a circuit court order
summarily denying his motion for post-conviction relief, which raised eight
grounds. We affirm the circuit court’s summary denial of seven of the
grounds without further discussion and reverse its summary denial of
ground two.

   In ground two, Cunningham claimed ineffective assistance of trial
counsel for failure to object and move for mistrial when the jury observed
him wearing shackles during trial. The State’s response and record
attachments do not refute this claim. See Torres v. State, 9 So. 3d 746
(Fla. 4th DCA 2009).

   We remand to the circuit court to hold an evidentiary hearing on this
claim or attach portions of the record refuting it.

   Reversed and remanded.
WARNER, TAYLOR and LEVINE, JJ., concur.

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  Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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