Purdum v. Laddin

How courts have described this case

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• holding the record must only show right to jury trial explained in intelligible manner during plea colloquy
• conveying that it is the court’s statements and the defendant’s answers that lead to the conclusion that the defendant either was, or was not, adequately informed of his rights
• although it is “best” to stop and inquire after each constitutional right, “the failure to so proceed will not necessarily invalidate a plea”
• “Rather, the focus, upon review, is whether the record shows that the trial court explained or referred to the right in a manner reasonably intelligible to that defendant.”
• “Rather, the focus, upon review, is whether the record shows that the trial court explained or referred to the right in a manner reasonably intelligible to that defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).