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Polite v. State

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  Justine Polite, Appellant, v. The State of Florida, Appellee.  No. 3D06-1944.   District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.   Opinion filed May 28, 2008.           An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Peter R. Lopez, Judge, Lower Tribunal No. 02-4527.         Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Howard K. Blumberg, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.         Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Magaly Rodriguez, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellee.         Before COPE, GREEN, and RAMIREZ, JJ.         RAMIREZ, J.         Appellant seeks reversal of his plea and sentence. We reverse on the basis that defendant was affirmatively misadvised by his attorney and was therefore denied effective assistance of counsel...continue to full post

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