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Lewis v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
Sep 20, 2006
938 So. 2d 579 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2006)

Opinion

No. 4D05-1503.

September 20, 2006.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Paul L. Backman, Judge; L.T. Case No. 03-8775 CF10A.

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Elisabeth Porter, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jeanine M. Germanowicz, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


This is an appeal from a finding that appellant violated his probation. We affirm the finding that appellant was competent at the VOP hearing. Hardy v. State, 716 So.2d 761 (Fla. 1998) (where there is conflicting expert testimony regarding defendant's competency, it is the trial court's responsibility to resolve the factual dispute). We decline to address appellant's contention that his counsel was ineffective for not raising the issue of his competency during the VOP hearing on this direct appeal.

Affirmed.

WARNER, KLEIN and GROSS, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Lewis v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
Sep 20, 2006
938 So. 2d 579 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2006)
Case details for

Lewis v. State

Case Details

Full title:Paul LEWIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: Sep 20, 2006

Citations

938 So. 2d 579 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2006)