Lashon Marcay Pritchett v. Commonwealth of Virginia

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the purpose of allowing a party to withdraw a plea is not “to enable gamesmanship or mere regret”
• explaining that the plea colloquy cannot be considered for any “admission about external facts such as guilt or available defenses”
• “a defendant could plead guilty with full knowledge of an available defense to gain delay or for some other tactical reason, and then set the plea aside simply by tendering a defense to the charges”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).