ROBERT GREEN, JR., APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
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Florida appellate court reversed denial of postconviction relief on certain grounds because the trial court failed to grant leave to amend before dismissing legally insufficient pleadings, as required by Spera v. State.
A postconviction court must grant a petitioner leave to amend before denying a claim for legal insufficiency unless the claim is conclusively refuted by the record or cannot be made facially sufficient through good faith amendment.
[1] Postconviction court must grant leave to amend before dismissing pleading deficiencies unless claim is conclusively refuted by record or cannot be made facially sufficien…
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CASANUEVA, Judge.
Robert Green appeals the summary denial of his motion for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. We affirm the denial of grounds four, five, six, and eight without comment. We also affirm the denial of Mr. Green’s subclaim in ground two regarding the procedures used in photopack identification. However, we reverse the denial of grounds one, three, seven, and the remainder of the claims in ground two, and we remand for further proceedings.
Although the postconviction court correctly determined that these allegations were legally insufficient, it denied the claims without first granting Mr. Green leave to amend as required by Spera v. State, 971 So. 2d 754 (Fla.2007) (holding that the postconviction court should not deny a claim due to a pleading deficiency without first giving the petitioner an opportunity to amend the claim unless the claim is conclusively refuted by the record or the claim could not be made facially sufficient through a “good faith” amendment). Because the limited record before this court fails to conclusively refute these grounds, we remand for the postconviction court to strike these portions of Mr. Green’s motion with leave to amend within a reasonable period of time. See id.; Baldwin v. State, 978 So. 2d 257 (Fla. 2d DCA 2008).
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded.
KELLY and WALLACE, JJ., Concur.
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- Spera v. State, 971 So. 2d 754 (Fla. 2007)
- Baldwin v. State, 978 So. 2d 257 (Fla. 2d DCA 2008)