Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Johnston

How courts have described this case

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• noting that pleading guilty waives constitutional defects and defenses except those relating to the plea’s validity
• holding a defendant’s statements during a change-of-plea colloquy “constitute a formidable barrier in a subsequent challenge to the validity of a plea”
• denying relief on review because “[petitioner] has failed to establish the trial court abused its discretion in summarily dismissing his petition for post-conviction relief.”
• analyzing a PCR petitioner’s claims that his plea was involuntary and his counsel was ineffective but only applying the question of prejudice as to the latter claim
• “[A] challenge to plea proceedings is subject to summary dismissal when based on conclusory allegations unsupported by specifics.”
• Relief was denied because “[petitioner] has failed to establish the trial court abused its discretion in summarily dismissing his petition for post-conviction relief.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).