Carey v. Georgia
Annotate this CaseAppellant Valerie Carey pled guilty, under a negotiated plea agreement, to all counts in a 13-count indictment that charged her and her husband with malice murder and other crimes in connection with the death of their daughter. In pleading guilty, Carey avoided the death sentence and received life with the possibility of parole for murder, plus concurrent terms of imprisonment for the other offenses that did not merge. Carey subsequently sought and was granted the right to file an out-of-time appeal, and now claiming that her plea was invalid because it was not entered knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily. Because the record on its face did not support Carey's challenge to her guilty plea, the Supreme Court affirmed.
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