VALDES v. STATE (2024)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Anthony VALDES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 3D23-1028

Decided: April 24, 2024

Before SCALES, GORDO and BOKOR, JJ.

Donald C. Barrett, P.A., and Donald C. Barrett, for appellant. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Ivy R. Ginsberg, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Affirmed. Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687–88, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984) (setting forth two-part test for ineffective assistance claim); Occhicone v. State, 768 So. 2d 1037, 1048 (Fla. 2000) (explaining that strategic decisions of counsel rarely rise to the level of ineffective assistance); see also Miller v. State, 161 So. 3d 354, 364 (Fla. 2015) (“Ineffective assistance claims are reviewed under a mixed standard of review because the performance and prejudice prongs of Strickland present mixed questions of law and fact.”).

PER CURIAM.

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