Reyes v. State

This is an appeal from a summary denial of defendant’s motion for post-conviction relief under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. We affirm.

The defendant, Jacinto Reyes, was convicted of robbery with a deadly weapon, kidnapping, and burglary with an assault, all stemming from a hold-up of an insurance agency. In his motion for post-conviction relief, he claimed that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to call him to testify at his suppression hearing; and failing to investigate his claim that he was beaten by the arresting police officers two weeks before he gave a…