District Court of Appeal of Florida

An order denying defendant's amended motion to withdraw his plea to drug-related charges is reversed pursuant to his claim that the plea was involuntary because both his trial counsel and the trial court failed to inform him of a three-year mandatory minimum sentence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/10/2006
• Published 05/10/2006

Judges

• MAY, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Margaret Good-Earnest, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Katherine Y. McIntire, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.