State of Minnesota v. Sylvester Jones

Citations

• 7 N.W.3d 391

Syllabus

A guilty plea is inaccurate, thus entitling a defendant to withdraw the plea to correct a manifest injustice under Minn. R. Crim. P. 15.05, subd. 1, when a defendant makes a statement during the plea colloquy essentially negating an element of the charged offense, only leading questions are asked in an attempt to rehabilitate the plea, the statement is neither withdrawn nor corrected by the defendant on the record, and the factual basis for the plea is not sufficiently established by other means. Reversed and remanded.