Cardenas v. State

The appellant challenges an order by which the trial court summarily denied each of the claims raised in the appellant’s Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850 motion for postconviction relief. Because the appellant raises several colorable claims of ineffective assistance of counsel which were not refuted by the attachments to the order, we affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.

The appellant was convicted after a jury trial of two counts of boating under the influence (BUI) manslaughter and one count of operating a vessel under the influence, and was sentenced to a total of 15 years’…