
    Louis CHICKLIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 4D02-1938.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    July 24, 2002.
    Louis Chicklis, Okeechobee, pro se.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and James J. Carney, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

We reverse the trial court’s order denying Louis Chicklis’ petition for writ of ha-beas corpus for belated motion for post-conviction relief. On remand, the trial court shall conduct an evidentiary hearing to determine whether appellant retained counsel to timely file a Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850 motion and whether counsel failed to timely file such a motion. See Medrano v. State, 748 So.2d 986, 987 (Fla.1999); Steele v. Kehoe, 747 So.2d 931, 934 (Fla.1999); Krasnick v. State, 780 So.2d 1045, 1046 (Fla. 4th DCA 2001).

GUNTHER, WARNER and TAYLOR, JJ., concur.  