Williams v. State

Appellant contends on this appeal that his final judgment and sentence for heroin possession and attempting to elude a police officer, entered pursuant to a plea of nolo contendere, must be reversed because the plea was not voluntary. After a thorough review of the record, we agree and reverse. There is ample authority for addressing the issue on direct appeal where as here that attack on the voluntariness of the plea appears on its face to be substantial. See Lovelace v. Wainwright, 352 So.2d 907 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977); Wood v. State, 357 So.2d 1060 (Fla. 1st DCA 1978). See also Bloom v. State,…