Bradley A. Williams v. State

Bradley Williams timely petitions this court pursuant to Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.141(d), alleging ineffective assistance of his appellate counsel on direct appeal. For the following reasons, we grant the petition.

The relevant facts in this case are not in dispute. Williams entered into a plea agreement with the State to resolve his criminal case. The trial court accepted Williams’s plea and sentenced him consistently with the agreement. Williams thereafter timely filed a motion to withdraw his plea pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.170(7), which raised in part…