NATHANIEL A. STEPHENSON, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 5th DCA | 2012-02-10
No. 5D11-3825
ORFINGER, C.J., SAWAYA and MONACO, JJ., concur.
79 So. 3d 880 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (2012)

Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

Appellant appeals the summary denial of his post-conviction motion filed pursuant to rule 3.850, Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure. Of the three claims he raised in his motion, we find that the denial of only one warrants reversal. In claim two, Appellant asserts that his trial counsel was ineffective for advising him not to testify at trial. Because the record does not adequately refute this legally sufficient claim, we reverse that part of the order summarily denying it and remand this case to the trial court for an evidentiary hearing. See Ferrer v. State, 2 So.3d 1111 (Fla. 4th DCA 2009). Otherwise, we affirm the order under review.

AFFIRMED in part; REVERSED in part; and REMANDED.

ORFINGER, C.J., SAWAYA and MONACO, JJ., concur.


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