Court Opinion

ID: 4384512
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Date Created: 2019-04-05 14:03:18.75365+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:31:13.556472
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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                 STATE OF FLORIDA
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                         Nos. 1D18-3675
                              1D18-3783
                   (Consolidated for disposition)
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LEVY M. BISHOP,

    Appellant,

    v.

STATE OF FLORIDA,

    Appellee.
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On appeal from the Circuit Court for Leon County.
James C. Hankinson, Judge.

                            April 5, 2019

PER CURIAM.

    Levy Bishop appeals orders revoking his probation in two
separate cases. We consolidate the appeals, and we affirm.

     Bishop raises a single issue on appeal. He contends that there
was ineffective assistance of counsel obvious on the face of the
record. Although ineffective-assistance claims are typically
cognizable only in postconviction proceedings, in rare instances,
appellants can raise ineffective assistance on direct appeal. Sims
v. State, 260 So. 3d 509, 512 (Fla. 1st DCA 2018). But to do so, an
appellant must show, among other things, “indisputable
prejudice.” Id. (quoting Morales v. State, 170 So. 3d 63, 67 (Fla. 1st
DCA 2015)). Here, Bishop argues his counsel was ineffective for
not adequately pursuing the earlier-filed motion to suppress. But
rather than demonstrate indisputable prejudice, Bishop has only
argued that had the court granted the motion, Bishop would have
prevailed—and that had the court not granted the motion, the
issue would have at least been preserved for appellate review. This
falls well short of what is necessary to meet the narrow exception
to the general rule, so Bishop’s ineffective-assistance claims may
only be raised in a postconviction proceeding.

    AFFIRMED.

WOLF, BILBREY, and WINSOR, 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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Andy Thomas, Public Defender, and Kasey Lacey, Assistant Public
Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Ashley B. Moody, Attorney General, for Appellee.

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