EUGENE MACK, APPELLANT,
v.
THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
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The court held that the trial court properly denied the motion for post-conviction relief because the evidence of guilt was overwhelming and refuted claims of ineffective assistance of counsel.
Eugene Mack appealed the denial of his motion for post-conviction relief, alleging ineffective assistance of trial counsel. The State provided trial t…
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Eugene Mack appeals a circuit court order summarily denying a motion under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. We affirm.
The State’s response, supplemental response, and appendix were a part of the record below and are before us. Those documents, which include the pertinent trial transcripts, conclusively refute the appellant’s claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel.
In this ease, the appellant had been identified by eyewitnesses and had confessed. The allegation that there is a reasonable probability that the outcome of the trial would have been different, but for the allegedly deficient performance of trial counsel, is refuted by the overwhelming and duly-admitted evidence of guilt. We therefore affirm under the ineffective assistance standards set forth in Strickland, v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984), and the principle that the trial court “need not determine whether counsel’s performance was deficient when it is clear that the alleged deficiency was not prejudicial.” Torres-Arboleda v. Dugger, 636 So.2d 1321, 1324 (Fla.1994).
Affirmed.
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