Flynn v. Rhodes

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “[m]ere conclusions of law recited by an accused are insufficient to provide a factual basis for a guilty plea.”
• noting that Article 45(a), UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 845(a) (2002), requires military judges, unlike civilian judges, to resolve inconsistencies and defenses during the providence inquiry or “the guilty plea[] must be rejected”
• suggesting inconsistencies in a plea must be resolved by the military judge, or the pleas must be deemed improvident
• “[mjere conclusions of law recited by an accused are insufficient to provide a factual basis for a guilty plea”
• mere recitations of a conclusion of law by accused should not preclude appropriate inquiry by trial judge
• mere recitations of a conclusion of law by accused should not preclude appropriate inquiry by trial judge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).