Bannister v. State (Per Curiam)
Annotate this CasePetitioner pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree sexual assault. Petitioner subsequently filed in the trial court a pro se petition for writ of error coram nobis alleging that his guilty plea was coerced and that newly discovered evidence warranted issuance of the writ. The circuit court denied the petition. Petitioner later sought leave to proceed with a belated appeal of the order. The Supreme Court denied the motion, holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying coram nobis relief where (1) Petitioner’s claims did not rise to the level of coercion required to demonstrate that a writ of error coram nobis should issue; and (2) the petition did not demonstrate a Brady violation in that there was no fact cited by Petitioner that could not have been known at the time the plea was entered.
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