State v. Schaefer
Annotate this CasePursuant to an agreement negotiated between Defendant’s attorney and the prosecutor, Defendant pled nolo contendere to amended on-grid charges of rape and attempted rape. Defendant moved to withdraw his plea, asserting that good cause for withdrawal existed because his attorney had provided ineffective assistance and coerced him to accept the negotiated plea bargain and that his prescription drugs rendered ineffectual the colloquy with the judge at the plea hearing. The district court denied the motion to withdraw plea and proceeded to sentence Defendant. The court of appeals affirmed. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the evidence did not support Defendant’s claim of good cause to withdraw his plea.
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