LAVORIS JOHNSON v. STATE OF FLORIDA

Lavoris Johnson petitions the Court for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging ineffective assistance of appellate counsel. Fla. R. App. P. 9.141(d). We find that appellate counsel’s failure to raise the trial court’s error in denying Johnson’s motion to suppress resulted in manifest injustice, where we reversed co-defendant Lorenzo Sanchez’s conviction on that basis. See Sanchez v. State, 199 So.3d 472 (Fla. 4th DCA), rev. denied, No. SC16-1833, 2016 WL 6603971 (Fla. Nov. 8, 2016). We therefore grant the petition, vacate Johnson’s conviction and sentence for second degree murder, and'remand for a…