WILLIAMS v. STATE

No. KK-4.

365 So.2d 460 (1978)

Willie E. WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

December 28, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Minerva, Public Defender and Janice G. Scott and John D.C. Newton, II, Asst. Public Defenders, for appellant.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen. and Wallace E. Allbritton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

Appellant contends on this appeal that his final judgment and sentence for heroin possession and attempting to elude a police officer, entered pursuant to a plea of nolo contendere, must be reversed because the plea was not voluntary. After a thorough review of the record, we agree and reverse. There is ample authority for addressing the issue on direct appeal where as here that attack on the voluntariness of the plea appears on its face to be substantial...

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