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Date Created: 2023-11-27 15:21:23.538049+00
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FIFTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                STATE OF FLORIDA
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                       Case No. 5D23-517
                   LT Case No. 2017-CF-1649
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LIVINGSTON JARROD WINTERS,

    Appellant,

    v.

STATE OF FLORIDA,

    Appellee.
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3.850 Appeal from the Circuit Court for Putnam County.
Alicia R. Washington, Judge.

Matthew R. McLain, of McLain Law P.A., Longwood, for
Appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Pamela J.
Koller, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

                      September 22, 2023

PER CURIAM.

     Livingston Jarrod Winters appeals the postconviction court’s
amended order summarily denying grounds two, three, and four of
his Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850 motion for
postconviction relief after remand. 1 Concluding that the record
attachments to the amended order have not conclusively refuted
Winters’s claim for relief on ground two, we reverse that aspect of
the amended order and remand for an evidentiary hearing. 2 We
affirm the postconviction court’s denial of grounds three and four
without further discussion.

      AFFIRMED, in part, REVERSED, in part, and REMANDED for
further proceedings.

EDWARDS, C.J., MAKAR and LAMBERT, JJ., concur.

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    Not final until disposition of any timely and
    authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or
    9.331.
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    1 In Winters v. State, 347 So. 3d 526 (Fla. 5th DCA 2022), we

affirmed the lower court’s summary denial of ground one of
Winters’s motion. We reversed the summary denial of grounds
two, three, and four and remanded for the court to either attach
records to its order that conclusively refuted these grounds for
relief or to hold an evidentiary hearing. Id. at 528. The court
subsequently attached records to its amended order and did not
hold a hearing.
    2 To facilitate the resolution of this evidentiary hearing, the

postconviction court may wish to consider granting Winters leave
to more fully explain ground two of his pro se motion.

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