Cobbins v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• applying Parris to hold that a defendant entered Alford pleas for the purpose of subterfuge
• affirming convictions and sentence without dismissing any portion of the appeal where appellant's Alford plea of guilty waived appellate review of trial court's denial of continuance motion
• “By his own admission, Cobbins pled guilty in an attempt to ‘buy time’ to get what he really wanted: yet another continuance of his trial so he could dismiss his second lawyer and hire a third.”
• motion to withdraw not made in good faith when guilty plea entered “in an attempt to ‘buy time’ to get what [t]he [defendant] really wanted: yet another continuance of his trial so he could dismiss his second lawyer and hire a third”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).