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Burgess v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
Aug 9, 2006
935 So. 2d 119 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2006)

Opinion

No. 4D06-1368.

August 9, 2006.

Appeal from the Circuit Court, Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County, Joel T. Lazarus, J.

Willie T. Burgess, Lake City, pro se. Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melanie Dale Surber, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


Appellant, Willie T. Burgess, appeals the summary denial of his rule 3.850 motion for post-conviction relief. Appellant alleged ineffective assistance of his trial counsel for failing to move to suppress his confession made to police after he was given defective Miranda warnings. In comparable cases, we have held that such a claim is legally sufficient. See Anthony v. State, 927 So.2d 1084 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006); Martelus v. State, 924 So.2d 881 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006); Stancle v. State, 917 So.2d 911 (Fla. 4th DCA 2005). We therefore reverse and remand either for the attachment of portions of the record conclusively refuting the claim or for an evidentiary hearing. Reversed and Remanded. FARMER, KLEIN and HAZOURI, JJ., concur.

Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966).


Summaries of

Burgess v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
Aug 9, 2006
935 So. 2d 119 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2006)
Case details for

Burgess v. State

Case Details

Full title:Willie T. BURGESS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: Aug 9, 2006

Citations

935 So. 2d 119 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2006)

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