Shelley Goldman v. State of Florida

Shelley Goldman timely appeals the summary denial of a postconviction motion alleging newly discovered evidence of a plea offer that she first learned about at the evidentiary hearing on her prior rule 3.850 motion. The motion meets the pleading requirements of Alcorn v. State, 121 So.3d 419, 430 (Fla.2013). There was some testimony about the plea offer at the hearing, but failure to convey a plea offer was not one of the grounds alleged in the earlier motion, so the testimony was not relevant to the grounds alleged in the earlier motion. Although circumstantial evidence exists suggesting…