Orr v. State

Appellant seeks review of the trial court’s order summarily denying his motion for postconviction relief under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. Appellant raises several points on appeal, only one of which has merit. Appellant contended he was denied effective assistance of counsel in that his trial counsel had not expended the effort to verify an adjudication of his client’s incompetency in North Carolina. If the allegations are true, appellant might be entitled to post-conviction relief. The trial court, however, failed to conduct an eviden-tiary hearing or to attach a portion of…