Jahman Whitfield v. State

Jahman Whitfield petitions for postcon-viction relief pursuant to Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.141(d), asserting ineffective assistance of appellate counsel. Following a jury trial, Whitfield was convicted of raping, kidnapping, strangling, and battering his grandmother in her house. We find merit only as to Whitfield’s claim in ground one of his petition that, under the circumstances of this case, his convictions for both domestic battery by strangulation (count four) and battery on a person sixty-five years or older (count six) violate the prohibition against double jeopardy and…