Court Opinion

ID: 2781930
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2015-02-25 16:03:25.403397+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:01:41.266313
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NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING
                      MOTION AND, IF FILED, DETERMINED

                                             IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL

                                             OF FLORIDA

                                             SECOND DISTRICT

PEDRO BACILIO,                               )
                                             )
             Appellant,                      )
                                             )
v.                                           )       Case No. 2D14-3811
                                             )
STATE OF FLORIDA,                            )
                                             )
             Appellee.                       )
                                             )

Opinion filed February 25, 2015.

Appeal pursuant to the Fla. R. App. P.
9.141(b)(2) from the Circuit Court for Lee
County; Edward J. Volz, Jr., Judge.

Jack O. Solano, Miami, for Appellant.

ALTENBERND, Judge.

             Pedro Bacilio appeals the summary denial of his postconviction motion

that was filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. We reverse and

remand to give Mr. Bacilio an opportunity to amend his motion.

             In his short motion filed by his postconviction attorney in April 2013, Mr.

Bacilio alleges that he was arrested in 2011 for two counts of battery on a law

enforcement officer and resisting arrest without violence. He claims his attorney was

ineffective at the time of his plea in October 2011 because the attorney did not give him
adequate advice concerning his deportation risks as required by Padilla v. Kentucky,

559 U.S. 356 (2010).

              The postconviction court directed the State to respond to the motion. The

State argued both that the motion was conclusively refuted by the record and that it was

facially insufficient, citing to this court's decision in Balcazar v. State, 116 So. 3d 575

(Fla. 2d DCA 2013). The postconviction court denied the motion, without leave to

amend, claiming that it was conclusively refuted by the warnings about deportation in

the plea form and at the plea hearing.

              There is no question that the motion was facially deficient under the

guidelines established by this court in Balcazar. We established those guidelines after

Mr. Bacilio filed his motion. In Balcazar, we reversed in part and remanded to allow the

defendant an opportunity to amend his motion. Id. at 576. We conclude that the same

relief is warranted in this case. Even if we could predict what Mr. Bacilio might allege in

a facially sufficient motion concerning the advice given to him by his lawyer and his

reliance on that advice, we do not believe that those future allegations can be

conclusively refuted at this time by the standard language in the plea form and the

typical judicial colloquy at the plea hearing.

              Accordingly, we reverse and remand, instructing the trial court to strike the

motion with leave to amend.

KHOUZAM and SLEET, JJ., Concur.

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