ALBERTOINE NORDELUS, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
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Appellant Nordelus appealed a trial court's summary denial of his postconviction motion challenging the voluntariness of his guilty plea to DUI manslaughter. The Florida Supreme Court's decision in Bolware v. State established that driver's license revocation is a collateral consequence of a plea, not a direct consequence, so failure to advise of it does not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel.
The court affirmed the trial court's order on the first issue, holding that driver's license revocation is a collateral, not direct, consequence of a plea and thus need not be disclosed. The court reversed on the second issue, finding the state had not conclusively refuted the claim of counsel's misadvice regarding sentencing options and remanding for attachment of conclusive record evidence or an evidentiary hearing.
[1] Revocation of a driver's license is a collateral, not a direct, consequence of a plea, and therefore failure to advise a defendant of this consequence does not constitute…
[2] A plea is involuntary if counsel misadvises the defendant regarding the mandatory nature of a prison sentence.
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Join FLexlaw to unlock all legal intelligence“the state had failed to conclusively refute his allegation that his plea to DUI manslaughter was involuntary because neither his attorney nor the trial judge had informed him that his license would be revoked as a result of his conviction”
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Join FLexlaw to unlock all legal intelligenceNordelus pleaded guilty to DUI manslaughter. He was not informed by his attorney or the trial judge that his driver's license would be revoked as a re…
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On Remand From The Florida Supreme Court
Appellant challenges the trial court’s order summarily denying his motion for posteonvietion relief under rule 3.850. We initially reversed the order, finding that the state had failed to conclusively refute his allegation that his plea to DUI manslaughter was involuntary because neither his attorney nor the trial judge had informed him that his license would be revoked as a result of his conviction. See Nordelus v. State, 889 So.2d 910 (Fla. 4th DCA 2004). We concluded that this was a direct consequence of the plea and thus was something about which a defendant must be advised upon entering a plea. We certified conflict with State v. Bolware, 999 So.2d 660 (Fla. 1st DCA 2003). The supreme court held in Bolware v. State, 995 So.2d 268 (Fla.2008), that revocation of a driver’s license does not constitute punishment and thus is a collateral, not direct, consequence of a plea. It therefore was not ineffective assistance of counsel to fail to advise the defendant of this consequence. The supreme court quashed our opinion and remanded for reconsideration.
Based on Bolware, we thus affirm as to appellant’s first issue.
We reverse, however, on appellant’s second claim, as we did in our prior opinion. He alleged that his plea was also involuntary because counsel misadvised him that the trial court could place him on probation following his plea. He claims that had he known that a prison sentence was mandatory he would not have entered a plea. As we noted in our previous opinion, the state has not conclusively refuted this claim. We reverse for attachment of portions of the record which conclusively refute this claim or for an evidentiary hearing.
WARNER, POLEN and STEVENSON, JJ., concur.
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- Demello Bolware v. State, 995 So. 2d 268 (Fla. 2008)
- Albertoine Nordelus v. State, 889 So. 2d 910 (Fla. 4th DCA 2004)
- State v. Demello Bolware, 999 So. 2d 660 (Fla. 1st DCA 2003)