Supreme Court of Florida

A claim that counsel affirmatively misadvised a defendant about the collateral effect of future sentence-enhancing potential does not meet Strickland's requirements for a valid claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/20/2006
• Published 04/20/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Robert R. Wheeler, Bureau Chief Criminal Appeals, and Trisha Meggs Pate, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender and P. Douglas Brinkmeyer, Assistant Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, FL, for Respondent.