Rousseau v. State

On appeal, appellant raises one viable issue in arguing error in the trial court’s denial of his motion for postconviction relief: Ineffective assistance of counsel, in that counsel misrepresented at the violation of probation hearing the length of actual time appellant would serve in the Department of Corrections based on a plea.

Although the trial court attached to its order transcripts of two hearings related to appellant’s original sentence and violation of probation, the record contains no transcript of the actual proceedings in which appellant would have been questioned as to the…