Legal Opinion
Brooks v. State
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided March 18, 1998No. 97-3675PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
710 So.2d 595 (1998)
Jack Houston BROOKS, Appellant,
v.
STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 97-3675.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
March 18, 1998.
Appellant, pro se.
No appearance by appellee.
WOLF, Judge.
Brooks appeals from a final order summarily denying his rule 3.850 motion for postconviction relief. He raised a number of grounds in his motion, only one of which requires an evidentiary hearing or attachment of portions of the record conclusively refuting the claim. Appellant claimed that defense counsel had rendered constitutionally ineffective assistance by failing to call…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Highsmith v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1993
3Cited by4 opinions
- Schopper v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2001
- Brown v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2007
- Sookov v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2003
- Wright v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2001