RIVERO v. STATE

No. 3D07-2490.

121 So.3d 1175 (2013)

Jose A. RIVERO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

September 25, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jose A. Rivero, in proper person.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, and Nikole Hiciano, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Before WELLS and ROTHENBERG, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.


ROTHENBERG, J.

The defendant, Jose Rivero, appeals from the denial of his rule 3.850 motion for postconviction relief, in which he claims that: (1) he was pressured into accepting the State's plea offer because his lawyer had lost his "case file"; and (2) he had obtained newly discovered evidence that would have resulted in an acquittal had he proceeded to trial. Because the plea transcript unequivocally refutes the defendant's first claim, and the evidence the defendant...

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