Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-04-24 16:03:33.956663+00
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Third District Court of Appeal
                               State of Florida

                         Opinion filed April 24, 2024.
       Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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                             No. 3D23-1028
                      Lower Tribunal No. 16-182-A-K
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                            Anthony Valdes,
                                  Appellant,

                                     vs.

                         The State of Florida,
                                  Appellee.

     An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Monroe County, Mark H. Jones,
Judge.

     Donald C. Barrett, P.A., and Donald C. Barrett, for appellant.

      Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Ivy R. Ginsberg, Assistant
Attorney General, for appellee.

Before SCALES, GORDO and BOKOR, JJ.

     PER CURIAM.
      Affirmed. Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687–88 (1984)

(setting forth two-part test for ineffective assistance claim); Occhicone v.

State, 768 So. 2d 1037, 1048 (Fla. 2000) (explaining that strategic decisions

of counsel rarely rise to the level of ineffective assistance); see also Miller v.

State, 161 So. 3d 354, 364 (Fla. 2015) (“Ineffective assistance claims are

reviewed under a mixed standard of review because the performance and

prejudice prongs of Strickland present mixed questions of law and fact.”).

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