Burt v. State

Full title: Issac BURT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Date published: Sep 1, 2017

225 So. 3d 413 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2017)

Opinion

Case No. 5D17–724

09-01-2017

Issac BURT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Deana K. Marshall, of Law Office of Deana K. Marshall, P.A., Riverview, for Appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Carmen F. Corrente, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Deana K. Marshall, of Law Office of Deana K. Marshall, P.A., Riverview, for Appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Carmen F. Corrente, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Issac Burt ("Appellant") appeals the trial court's order summarily denying his Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850 motion for postconviction relief alleging ineffective assistance of counsel. We find that the attached records conclusively refute ground one of Appellant's motion. However, we do not find that the attached records conclusively refute the remaining grounds, in which Appellant argued that defense counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to object to repeated improper statements during the State's closing argument (ground two) and by failing to adequately cross-examine the State's expert witness (ground three). Therefore, we reverse and remand for the trial court to either attach records conclusively refuting grounds two and three or to hold an evidentiary hearing on these grounds. See, e.g., Freeman v. State, 761 So.2d 1055, 1061 (Fla. 2000) ("[A] defendant is entitled to an evidentiary hearing on a postconviction relief motion unless (1) the motion, files, and records in the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitled to no relief, or (2) the motion or a particular claim is legally insufficient.").

AFFIRMED in part; REVERSED in part; REMANDED with Instructions.

COHEN, C.J., WALLIS and EDWARDS, JJ., concur.