Brown v. State

Appellant Michael Lee Brown appeals the postconviction court’s summary denial of ground one of his Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850 motion. Appellant alleged that his trial attorneys did not adequately advise him as to the “details and the strength” of the State’s case and that had he been properly advised, he would have accepted the State’s plea offer of fifteen years’ imprisonment, instead of proceeding to trial. We agree that the. court erred in summarily denying ground one without attaching refuting documents.

The minor victim in this "case told her mother that Appellant, who is…