McGuyton v. State

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting claim that it was an abuse of discretion to deny a motion to withdraw an Alford plea to murder because the plea was not based on a personal acknowledgment by the defendant that the evidence was legally sufficient to support his conviction
• rejecting claim that it was an abuse of discretion to deny a motion to withdraw an Alford plea to murder because the plea was not based on a personal acknowledgment by the defendant that the evidence was legally sufficient to support his conviction
• “Credibility determinations are within the purview of the trial court[,] and the court’s factual findings will not be disturbed unless clearly erroneous.”
• “Credibility determinations are within the purview of the trial court . . . .”
• in ruling on a motion to withdraw a guilty plea, credibility determinations are within the purview of the trial court, and the court's factual findings will not be disturbed unless clearly erroneous
• “A decision on a motion to withdraw a guilty plea is a matter for the sound discretion of the trial court and will not be disturbed absent manifest abuse.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).