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853 So. 2d 511

Balkey v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 2003-08-06

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently November 2011

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Decided 2003-08-06

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PER CURIAM.

¶1Bruce Balkey appeals the summary denial of his postconviction motion. The trial court denied the motion as untimely without addressing the merits of Balkey’s claims. However, as Balkey argued below,' the motion was timely filed based on Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.040.

¶2Two of the claims raised in the postcon-viction motion are legally sufficient and not refuted by any record attachments: (1) Balkey alleged that he received ineffective assistance of counsel because his attorney did not object that a lesser offense of the criminal mischief charge was stated incorrectly on the verdict form; and (2) he alleged that his attorney should have objected when the court imposed a thousand dollars restitution in this case because, based on the jury verdict, restitution should have been less than a thousand dollars.

¶3We reverse and remand for an eviden-tiary hearing or for attachment of portions of the record conclusively demonstrating that appellant is entitled to no relief.

¶4REVERSED and REMANDED.

WARNER, POLEN and STEVENSON, JJ., concur.
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