District Court of Appeal of Florida

Denial of defendant's motion for postconviction relief is reversed in part as to a claim that his counsel rendered ineffective assistance by eliciting numerous details of defendant's prior criminal record during his direct examination where his counsel's strategy to bolster his client's credibility with candor was "patently unreasonable."

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/09/2006
• Published 06/09/2006

Judges

• DAVIS, Judge.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Cynthia A. Dodge, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Danilo Cruz-Carino, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.