BENITEZ-SALDANA v. State

SILBERMAN, Judge.

Manuel A. Benitez-Saldana seeks review of his judgment and sentence for robbery and burglary with assault or battery. Benitez-Saldana argues that trial counsel provided ineffective assistance by making factual concessions that essentially admitted his guilt on both charges. Benitez-Saldana also argues that the trial court abused its discretion by admitting a recording of a call Benitez-Saldana made to his mother from jail. We agree that trial counsel’s factual concessions constituted ineffective assistance of counsel and reverse on this basis.

The charges in this case arose…