Townsend v. State

927 So.2d 1064 (2006)

Robert TOWNSEND, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 4D05-1171.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

May 10, 2006.

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Margaret Good-Earnest, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Katherine Y. McIntire, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

MAY, J.

The defendant appeals an order that denied his amended motion to withdraw his plea. He argues that the plea was involuntary because both his trial counsel and the trial court…