Opinion
Case No. 4D01-4551
Opinion filed January 30, 2002.
Appeal of order denying rule 3.850 motions from the Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County; Kenneth A. Marra, Judge; L.T. Case Nos. 97-13491 CFA02 98-4706 CFA02.
Richard W. Springer of Richard W. Springer, P.A., Palm Springs, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Georgina Jimenez-Orosa, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
We affirm the order summarily denying Appellant's two motions for post-conviction relief, both seeking to vacate his convictions based on the alleged involuntariness of his pleas. See Stretcher v. State, No. 4D01-2943, 2001 WL 1614138 (Fla. 4th DCA Dec. 19, 2001). As we did inStretcher, we certify as a question of great public importance the same question certified in Major v. State, 790 So.2d 550, 552 (Fla. 3d DCA 2001):
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT OR COUNSEL HAVE A DUTY TO ADVISE A DEFENDANT THAT HIS PLEA IN A PENDING CASE MAY HAVE SENTENCE ENHANCING CONSEQUENCES IF THE DEFENDANT COMMITS A NEW CRIME IN THE FUTURE?
GUNTHER, HAZOURI and MAY, JJ., concur.