Jamie Grant v. State of Florida

Jamie Grant petitions for habeas corpus relief on the grounds of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel •(“LAAC”). We grant his petition, concluding that counsel was ineffective in failing to raise on direct appeal the trial court’s error in denying his request for a jury instruction on a necessarily lesser-included offense to the main charge. As this constitutes a per se reversible error on direct appeal and a new appeal would be redundant, we vacate his conviction and sentence and remand for a new trial.

Grant was convicted in the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit of attempted armed robbery…