Keck v. State (Majority)
Annotate this CaseDefendant pled guilty to failure to comply with sex-offender-registration requirements and to violating conditions of his probated sentence. The circuit court sentenced Appellant in accordance with the plea agreement. After the sentencing hearing, through newly substituted counsel, Defendant filed a for a petition for postconviction relief requesting that he be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea. In his motion, Defendant asserted that he should have been allowed to withdraw his guilty plea because the plea was not voluntary and because he had discovered a new defense to the charges. The circuit court denied the petition. The Supreme Court dismissed Appellant's appeal, holding (1) the Court could not entertain the issues raised in Defendant's first three points on appeal because they did not fall within any of the exceptions to the general prohibition of appealing a guilty plea; and (2) because Defendant's petition was not verified as required by Ark. R. Crim. P. 37.1(c), the appeal must be dismissed.
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