Haynes v. State

Appellant, Cal Haynes, appeals a trial court order summarily denying all three grounds of his motion for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. We affirm the trial court’s summary denial of grounds one and three without further discussion, but reverse and remand the trial court’s summary denial of ground two.

In ground two, Haynes argued ineffective assistance of trial counsel arising from counsel advising him to reject a plea offer by the State of four years imprisonment, based on erroneous advice of counsel that the victim’s failure to appear for…