Commonwealth v. Cavanaugh

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• absence of express statement by defendant that he “pleaded guilty” did not invalidate otherwise knowing and voluntary guilty plea
• procedural flaw in plea hearing does not invalidate plea, where “the circumstances compel the conclusion that the defendant did enter a plea of guilty and that the plea was accepted by the judge”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).