Fields v. State

Brenda Fields filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in this court seeking a new appeal of her conviction of trafficking in oxycodone, arguing ineffective assistance of her appellate lawyer in her earlier, direct appeal. This court per curiam affirmed without opinion in Fields v. State, 86 So.3d 1135 (Fla. 4th DCA 2012). In the petition filed here, she identified three arguments that appellate counsel failed to raise in her direct appeal, and then concluded that if those points had been raised on appeal, the outcome “would probably have been different.” As the dissent points out,…