Washington v. State

This is an appeal from the denial of a Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 3.850 motion to vacate appellant’s prior conviction of first-degree murder. Several of the grounds in the motion concerning competency of the trial counsel were not very specific and, to the limited extent they were specific, were refuted by the record. Thus, the trial judge was correct in denying those portions of the motion.

The rule 3.850 motion also alleged that trial counsel never told appellant that he had to request an appeal if he received a sentence of less than death and, thus, frustrated his right to a direct…