State v. Malo

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming the denial of a motion to withdraw a plea where the defendant “fail[ed] to establish any fact that would undermine the validity of [his] plea”
• declining to accept argument that plea allegedly “made under emotional duress” was involuntary where trial court conducted questioning “to determine that the plea was the product of the defendant’s free choice” (alterations and quotation marks omitted)
• declining to accept argument that plea allegedly “made under emotional duress” was involuntary where trial court conducted questioning “to determine that the plea was the product of the defendant’s free choice” (alterations and quotation marks omitted)
• “A valid plea is made with knowledge of the elements of 14 the crime, the penalty that might be imposed and the constitutional rights relinquished by foregoing trial.”
• “A valid plea is made with knowledge of the elements of 14 the crime, the penalty that might be imposed and the constitutional rights relinquished by foregoing trial.”
• “Though [the defendant] alludes to the existence of evidence sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt of [his] culpability, he presented no such evidence at the hearing on the motion to withdraw . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).