DIANE JEAN NORRIS, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Richmond v. State, 375 So. 2d 1132 (Fla. 1st DCA 1979)
  …five-year sentence, not a five-year sentence with a mandatory three years in prison. His motion was denied and he appealed to this court. We hold that the trial court should have given appellant an opportunity to withdraw his plea. Norris v. State, 343 So. 2d 964 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977). We vacate appellant’s plea because the sentence was not what he bargained for, and remand to the trial court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. MILLS, C. J., and McCORD and SHIVERS, JJ., concur.…
• Green v. State, 406 So. 2d 1148 (Fla. 1st DCA 1981)
  …possible penalty. The courts of this State have routinely held that the failure to advise a defendant of a mandatory minimum sentence prevents the defendant from being properly apprised of the significance of his or her plea. E. g. Norris v. State, 343 So. 2d 964 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977). Under such circumstances, the defendant should be afforded the opportunity to withdraw his or her plea of guilty. Id.; See Jenkins v. United States, 420 F. 2d 433 (10th Cir. 1970). It logically follows that, since it is error to…
• Knowles v. State, 356 So. 2d 885 (Fla. 3d DCA 1978)
  …t his attorney advised him that he possibly could get probation, and that since he did not understand the significance of his plea when entered, it is mandatory that this court vacate his plea of nolo contendere. Appellant relies on Norris v. State, 343 So. 2d 964 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977), as authority for his position. The record of the evidentiary hearing reflects that appellant’s trial attorney, after speaking with the court and the state attorney, and prior to the nolo contendere plea, told appellant, “That…

Authorities Cited

• Brown v. State, 245 So. 2d 41 (Fla. 1971)
• Garcia v. State, 228 So. 2d 300 (Fla. 3d DCA 1969)
• Jenkins v. United States, 420 F.2d 433 (10th Cir. 1970)