Heatly v. State

Daniel Heatly has filed a timely petition under Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.141(d) alleging that appellate counsel was ineffective. We find merit only in ground one of his petition; we deny ground two.

A jury convicted Mr. Heatly as charged of first-degree arson and burglary of an unoccupied dwelling. The trial court sentenced him as a habitual felony offender to life imprisonment with a thirty-year mandatory minimum term as a prison releasee reoffender on the arson count, to be served concurrently with thirty years’ imprisonment with a fifteen-year mandatory minimum term as a prison…