Court Opinion

ID: 7525219
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 05:01:06.481981+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:23:37.344429
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PER CURIAM.
Appellant seeks review of the trial court’s order summarily denying his motion for post-conviction relief under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. Appellant raised four points in his motion. In Point I, he alleged that he involuntarily entered a nolo contendere plea in response to the public defender’s coercion and lack of preparation “to go to trial in a case like [appellant’s].” In Point II, appellant asserted that he was denied effective assistance of counsel through the public defender’s failure to investigate or prepare appellant’s case for trial. If these allegations are true, appellant might be entitled to relief. The trial court, however, failed to conduct an eviden-tiary hearing or to attach portions of the record which conclusively refute appellant’s assertions.
Accordingly, we reverse in part the trial court’s denial of appellant’s motion and remand the case to the trial court. On remand, the trial court may either again summarily deny the motion as to the first and second allegations and attach to its order those portions of the record which conclusively show that appellant is entitled to no relief, or hold an evidentiary hearing and then rule on the allegations raised in Points I and II of appellant’s motion. See Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. See also Halpin v. State, 428 So.2d 703 (Fla. 2d DCA 1983); Jones v. State, 421 So.2d 55 (Fla. 1st DCA 1982); Van Bever v. State, 405 So.2d 474 (Fla. 5th DCA 1981). To obtain further review in this cause, a party aggrieved by the trial court’s subsequent ruling must appeal anew.
The trial court was correct in denying appellant’s motion as to the other points raised therein. Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded.
BOARDMAN, A.C.J., and RYDER and DANAHY, JJ., concur.