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finding fraud where a lawyer assured his client that by signing an appeal bond he would not "have any [legal] problems" and neglecting to mention that the bond "would act as a mortgage on his property."
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No. 98-1792.
Opinion filed October 25, 1999.
An appeal from Order of Circuit Court for Escambia County, Kim Skievaski, Judge.
Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Carol Ann Turner, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee.
Floyd Spivey, Pro Se.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Giselle Lylen Rivera, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.
The appellant's convictions and sentences are affirmed, but we re-certify the question of great public importance we first certified in Locke v. State, 719 So.2d 1249 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998).
BARFIELD, C.J., MINER and ALLEN, JJ., CONCUR.