Court Opinion

ID: 3187140
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Date Created: 2016-03-21 14:21:40.44654+00
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                                       FIRST DISTRICT, STATE OF FLORIDA

JUSTIN VOSHELL,                        NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO
                                       FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND
      Appellant,                       DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED

v.                                     CASE NO. 1D15-5906

STATE OF FLORIDA,

      Appellee.

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Opinion filed March 18, 2016.

An appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for Duval County.
Angela Cox, Judge.

Justin Voshell, pro se, Appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, and Julian E. Markham, Assistant Attorney
General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

      This appeal returns to the Court following reversal and remand in Voshell v.

State, 174 So. 3d 1089 (Fla. 1st DCA 2015), for the trial court to attach the portion
of the record conclusively refuting Justin Voshell’s claim that counsel acted

ineffectively by advising or assuring him that if he entered a plea the court would

be lenient when sentencing him, and would impose a Youthful Offender sentence

for his armed robbery charges, or, in the least, would not impose lengthy sentences.

Appellant entered a plea and the court imposed three concurrent terms of 42.5

years’ imprisonment.

        The attached plea colloquy transcript indicates the trial court conducted only

a general inquiry into whether “anybody” had “threatened, coerced, intimidated” or

“promised” Appellant “anything[.]” This questioning does not conclusively refute

his assertions. See State v. Leroux, 689 So. 2d 235, 237 (Fla. 1996) (“Rule 3.850

explicitly requires that the record ‘conclusively’ rebut an otherwise cognizable

claim if it is to be denied without a hearing. Here, we must agree with the district

court that it cannot be said that respondent’s allegations of the misadvice of

counsel are ‘conclusively’ refuted by the plea colloquy. While the plea colloquy

may appear to be some evidence contrary to defendant’s claim, it is not so clear or

so inconsistent with the claim so as to ‘conclusively’ rebut it.”); Delice v. State,

103 So. 3d 262 (Fla. 5th DCA 2012) (citing Leroux to support its conclusion that

the written plea agreement, which stated that there was “no dispositional

understanding[,]”[ 1] did not conclusively refute Delice’s claim that counsel had

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    As explained in the original opinion reversing the appellant’s first appeal in this
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assured him he would receive a sentence of only 10 years, when the court imposed

a 15-year sentence, because it was only a general acknowledgement that he was

not promised anything to plead guilty).

      We therefore reverse and remand for the trial court to appoint counsel to

represent Appellant and to conduct an evidentiary hearing on this claim.

      REVERSED AND REMANDED.

ROBERTS, C.J., SWANSON, and KELSEY, JJ., CONCUR.

case, the plea form does not conclusively refute the appellant’s claim, either.
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