Lucca v. Flamingo Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when an appellant enters a guilty plea, he waives the right to “challenge on appeal all non-jurisdictional defects except the legality of [his] sentence and the validity of [his] plea.”
• noting that a claim that the court improperly graded an offense for sentencing purposes implicates the legality of a sentence, and such an issue is not waived on appeal by entering a guilty plea
• finding waiver where appellant failed to support issue with argument or citation to authority
• stating defendant preserved her challenge to guilty plea even though she presented different basis to trial court for withdrawing plea, because plea challenge was bundled with legality of sentence issue involving alleged error in grading of forgery offense
• an appellant waives right to challenge on direct appeal all non-jurisdictional defects except legality of sentence and validity of the plea
• when defendant enters negotiated guilty plea, he or she waives right to challenge on appeal all non-jurisdictional defects except legality of the sentence and validity of the plea

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