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583 So. 2d 399

Docket No. 91-220.

Wright v. State

Frank A. WRIGHT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1991-07-29

Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 1994

6 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“If a defendant, deciding whether to enter a plea, relies upon erroneous advice regarding the effect of gain time and similar provisions, the voluntary character of the plea may be undercut.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including Henderson v. State

Relies on 480 So. 2d 228 - Ray v. State · 566 So. 2d 914 - Tarpley v. State · 571 So. 2d 533 - Rackley v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1991-07-29

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¶1*400 Frank A. Wright, pro se.

¶2No appearance for appellee.

¶3KAHN, Judge.

¶4Wright appeals the trial court's summary denial of a motion for post-conviction relief, filed pursuant to Fla.R.Crim.P. 3.850. Appellant, who entered a negotiated plea of guilty to a charge of sale or delivery of cocaine, contends that prior to entry of the plea, he "was not instructed properly by counsel as to the restriction of basic gain time and provisional release credits, which are extended to most nonhabitualized inmates." We affirm the trial court's denial of the petition and distinguish our recent decision in Rackley v. State,571 So.2d 533 (Fla. 1st DCA 1990).

¶5The petitioner in Rackley affirmatively alleged that he had been given erroneous and misleading information concerning nonavailability of gain time, and specifically contended that court-appointed counsel informed petitioner that, even as an habitual offender, he would actually serve about four years of a ten year sentence. On these facts we held that Rackley's 3.850 petition could not be summarily dismissed, since the sparse record before the court in that case did not conclusively refute Rackley's allegations. In the present case, however, the petitioner does not allege that he was affirmatively misled by counsel. See, Tarpley v. State,566 So.2d 914 (Fla. 2d DCA 1990); Netherly v. State,508 So.2d 524 (Fla. 2d DCA 1987); Ray v. State,480 So.2d 228 (Fla. 2d DCA 1985).

¶6Since it may not be said in the present case that Wright, in deciding whether to enter a plea, relied upon affirmative erroneous advice regarding the effect of gain time and similar provisions, we conclude that the trial court correctly dismissed the 3.850 motion.

¶7SHIVERS and ZEHMER, JJ., concur.

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