Opinion
Case No. 4D03-2358.
Opinion filed September 3, 2003.
Appeal of order denying rule 3.850 motion from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Michael L. Gates, Judge; L.T. Case No. 97-7630 CF10B.
John H. Lipinski of the Law Office of J.H. Lipinski, Miami, for appellant.
Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Laura Fisher Zibura, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
Edwardo Valle appeals the summary denial of his Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850 motion for postconviction relief. We reverse and remand for an evidentiary hearing.
First, we find that appellant has alleged the requisite "threat of deportation." See Weir v. State, 823 So.2d 245 (Fla. 4th DCA 2002). Second, the record before this court does not refute appellant's allegation that he was not advised of the potential deportation consequences of his plea to criminal charges in case no. 97-7630. Accordingly, we reverse the trial court's order summarily denying relief and remand the case for an evidentiary hearing.
SHAHOOD, TAYLOR and HAZOURI, JJ., concur.
NOT FINAL UNTIL DISPOSITION OF ANY TIMELY FILED MOTION FOR REHEARING.