Legal Opinion

Puesan v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided February 22, 1989No. 88-2016PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Per curiam

This is an appeal from an order denying a motion to vacate judgment and sentence filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850.

The record before the court does not refute appellant’s sworn statements that, based on her attorney’s representations, she misunderstood the minimum mandatory sentence she could receive. Nor did the trial judge in the plea colloquy inform the appellant that the sentence of fifteen years that he could impose would be a minimum mandatory sentence. See Ramsey v. State, 408 So.2d 675, 676 (Fla. 4th DCA 1981) (test is whether defendant was prejudiced by…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Golden v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1987
  2. Ramsey v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1981

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Cooper v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1989

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