Zerquera v. State

583 So. 2d 348, 1991 Fla. App. LEXIS 6544, 1991 WL 110868

• Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida
• Decided: June 25, 1991
• Docket: No. 90-2304
• Status: Published

Opinion

PER CURIAM.

Jorge Zerquera appeals an order denying his motion for post-conviction relief pursuant to Rule 3.850, Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure, after an evidentiary hearing. The trial court found that defendant satisfied neither prong of the test set forth in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, , 104 S.Ct. 2052, 2068, 80 L.Ed.2d 674, 698 (1984). There is substantial competent evidence supporting, at the very least, the trial court’s finding that the second point of the Strickland test¹ was not satisfied. We need not reach the closer question presented with respect to the first point of Strickland.2

Affirmed.

1 . “The defendant must show that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel’s unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.” Id. at 694, 104 S.Ct. at 2068, 80 L.Ed.2d at 698.

2 . “First, the defendant must show that counsel’s performance was deficient. This requires showing that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the ‘counsel’ guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment." Id. at 687, 104 S.Ct. at 2064, 80 L.Ed.2d at 693.