Lopez v. State

In reliance on Edwards v. State, 393 So.2d 597 (Fla. 3d DCA 1981), Luis Alberto Lopez moved to withdraw his guilty plea because his counsel allegedly failed to inform him that the plea might subject him to being deported. The trial court denied the motion on the ground that Lopez’s plea did not subject him to deportation, and thus Edwards was inapplicable. Although the rule of Edwards has now been abrogated and the Florida Supreme Court has now authoritatively declared that the “failure to advise [a] client of the collateral consequence of deportation does not constitute ineffective…