Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2017-02-08 16:06:36.619275+00
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Third District Court of Appeal
                               State of Florida

                         Opinion filed February 08, 2017.
         Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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                               No. 3D16-2284
                         Lower Tribunal No. 11-23587
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                                Erick Pacheco,
                                    Appellant,

                                         vs.

                            The State of Florida,
                                    Appellee.

      An Appeal under Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.141(b)(2) from the
Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Daryl E. Trawick, Judge.

      Erick Pacheco, in proper person.

      Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, for appellee.

Before WELLS, ROTHENBERG, and LAGOA, JJ.

      ROTHENBERG, J.
      Erick Pacheco (“Pacheco”) was convicted of lewd and lascivious

molestation on a child between the age of twelve and sixteen (Count 1); lewd and

lascivious conduct on a child twelve to sixteen years of age by the defendant who

was eighteen years of age or older (Count 3); and lewd and lascivious battery on a

child less than sixteen years of age (Count 4).1 The record reflects that the victim

was thirteen or fourteen years old and Pacheco was thirty-eight years old when

Pacheco committed the charged offenses upon the victim.

      On direct appeal, this Court affirmed the convictions for the offenses

charged in Counts 1 and 4, but based on the State’s proper confession of error

(double jeopardy grounds), this Court reversed the conviction for the offense

charged in Count 3 with instructions to the trial court to vacate the conviction and

sentence imposed for Count 3, recalculate Pacheco’s sentencing scoresheet, and

resentence Pacheco. Pacheco v. State, 170 So. 3d 913 (Fla. 3d DCA 2015). The

trial court fully complied with this Court’s directive and substantially reduced

Pacheco’s sentence.

      Pacheco now appeals the trial court’s order denying his motion for

postconviction relief, in which Pacheco alleged eleven separate grounds of

ineffective assistance of trial counsel, which he contends requires a new trial.

After review of Pacheco’s motion, the State’s lengthy (seventy-seven page) and

1 During trial, the trial court granted a judgment of acquittal as to Count 2 on
double jeopardy grounds.

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very thorough response, the record, the relevant statutes and case law, and the trial

court’s order, we find no error and affirm. The claims raised by Pacheco were

refuted by the record and/or were without merit.

      Affirmed.

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