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Colorado Court of Appeals· 11/24/1995

People v. Isham

Citations

  • 923 P.2d 190
  • 19 Brief Times Rptr. 1660
  • 1995 Colo. App. LEXIS 324
  • 1995 WL 694792

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “When counsel is retained, there is a presumption in favor of a defendant’s choice of counsel.”
  • “[T]he trial court’s erroneous disqualification of counsel here does not require that defendant’s guilty plea be vacated, absent evidence that the plea was involuntary or unintelligently made.”
  • “[A] 4 defendant has no right to raise a constitutional claim after a guilty plea when that claim does not relate directly to the adequacy of the plea.”
  • “A defendant can successfully attack a plea only if he can prove serious dereliction on the part of counsel sufficient to show 5 that his plea was not a knowing and intelligent act.”
  • “A guilty plea waives all nonjurisdictional objections, including fundamental, Sixth Amendment constitutional rights.”
  • “A guilty 6 plea waives all nonjurisdictional objections, including fundamental, Sixth Amendment constitutional rights” and “a defendant has no right to raise a constitutional claim after a guilty plea when that claim does not relate directly to the adequacy of the plea.”

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Judges: Davidson, Casebolt, Roy

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