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Brown v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
Oct 29, 2008
992 So. 2d 915 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2008)

Opinion

No. 4D07-5092.

October 29, 2008.

Appeal of order denying rule 3.850 motion from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Michael G. Kaplan, Judge; L.T. Case No. 86-1665 CF10B.

Robert G. Amsel of Robbins, Tunkey, Ross, Amsel, Raben Waxman, P.A., Miami, for appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jeanine M. Germanowicz, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


The trial court's order denying appellant's rule 3.850 motion is reversed and remanded for further proceedings. Appellant's motion was timely filed within the two-year window provided for by State v. Green, 944 So.2d 208 (Fla. 2006), and was not conclusively refuted by the trial court's record attachments. To the extent the trial court concluded the motion failed to allege that the plea in this case was the sole basis for deportation, the court should have afforded appellant at least one opportunity to amend her motion to state a sufficient claim. See Forrest v. State, 988 So.2d 38 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008); Spera v. State, 971 So.2d 754 (Fla. 2007). We remand for the trial court to give the appellant one opportunity to amend her motion to properly allege that the plea in this case alone subjects her to deportation.

Reversed and Remanded.

KLEIN, HAZOURI and MAY, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Brown v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
Oct 29, 2008
992 So. 2d 915 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2008)
Case details for

Brown v. State

Case Details

Full title:Gwendolyn BROWN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: Oct 29, 2008

Citations

992 So. 2d 915 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2008)

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