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874 So. 2d 670

Gomez v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 2004-05-12

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Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Hoffman v. State

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Decided 2004-05-12

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PER CURIAM.

¶1The defendant, Pablo Gomez, appeals from the denial of his motion for post-conviction relief filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. We affirm.

¶2At the evidentiary hearing, the defendant argued that he turned down the State’s plea offer as a result of trial counsel’s ineffective assistance. A review of the transcript of the evidentiary hearing shows that the defendant failed to satisfy the test for establishing a claim for ineffective assistance of counsel. See Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 688, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984)(“In any case presenting an ineffectiveness claim, the performance inquiry must be whether counsel’s assistance was reasonable considering all the circumstances.”); Hoffman v. State, 827 So.2d 1046, 1048-49 (Fla. 5th DCA 2002)(holding that in claim by defendant that counsel’s ineffective assistance caused him to turn down State’s plea offer, “defendant must prove 1) that his counsel failed to communicate or misinformed him about a plea offer, 2) that he would have accepted the plea offer had he been correctly advised, and 3) that his acceptance of the plea offer would have resulted in a lesser sentence”). As such, the trial court’s order denying the 3.850 motion is affirmed.

¶3Affirmed.

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