MICHAEL BYNOE
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA

Fla. 5th DCA | 2021-12-17
No. 21-1400
Christensen, J., Lambert, C.J., Cohen, J., Sasso, J.
Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (2021)

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Holding

A postconviction court cannot summarily deny an ineffective assistance of counsel claim when the record attachments do not conclusively refute the claim that trial counsel failed to call a material witness.


Headnotes

[1] A postconviction court may not summarily deny an ineffective assistance of counsel claim under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850 unless the claim is facially inval…

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Key Quotes

“to uphold a circuit court's summary denial of a rule 3.850 claim, the claim 'must be either facially invalid or conclusively refuted by the record'”

Court citing Peede v. State, 748 So. 2d 253, 257 (Fla. 1999) for the standard governing summary denial of postconviction relief claims.

Facts & Procedural History

Michael Bynoe was convicted of neglect of a child causing great bodily harm to his infant daughter. He filed a Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.85…

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Opinion of the Court
Lambert

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA

FIFTH DISTRICT

NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO

FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND

DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED

MICHAEL BYNOE,

Appellant,

v. Case No. 5D21-1400 LT Case No. 14-269-CF

STATE OF FLORIDA,

Appellee. ________________________________/

Opinion filed December 17, 2021

3.850 Appeal from the Circuit Court for Putnam County. Patti A. Christensen, Judge.

Michael Bynoe, East Palatka, pro se.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kellie A. Nielan, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Michael Bynoe appeals the postconviction court’s order summarily denying his Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850 motion for postconviction relief. We affirm the order under review, except as to Bynoe’s

2 claim that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to call the minor victim’s pediatrician, Dr. Tiu, to testify at trial.1

We conclude that the record attachments to the denial order do not conclusively refute this claim. See Peede v. State, 748 So. 2d 253, 257 (Fla. 1999) (providing that to uphold a circuit court’s summary denial of a rule 3.850 claim, the claim “must be either facially invalid or conclusively refuted by the record”). The postconviction court is directed either to attach additional records to its denial order that conclusively refute the claim or to hold an evidentiary hearing.

AFFIRMED, in part; REVERSED, in part; REMANDED, with directions.

LAMBERT, C.J., COHEN and SASSO, JJ., concur.

Footnotes
1 Bynoe was convicted of neglect of a child causing great bodily harm. The victim is Bynoe’s then-infant daughter.

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