Wisnia Etienne v. State of Florida

We affirm the trial court’s order denying appellant’s motion for postconviction relief from his twenty-five year sentence. He claims that his attorney was ineffective for misadvising him that he would be sentenced between eight and fifteen years if he rejected the state’s offer of fifteen years and pled open to the court. However, during the plea colloquy, the court specifically told appellant that the court could sentence him above the state’s offer up to a maximum of life in prison and confirmed that appellant understood. The court asked him if he understood that no one, at that point in…