Tumulty v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a defendant can challenge the validity of his guilty plea only through a petition for post-conviction relief
• holding that a petition for post-conviction relief, and not a direct appeal, is the proper vehicle for challenging a conviction that is the result of a guilty plea
• holding that post-conviction relief Court of Appeals of Indiana | Memorandum Decision 19A-CR-2882| June 19, 2020 Page 4 of 7 was exactly the vehicle for pursuing the defendant’s claim
• observing that Tumulty pled guilty to “all counts” in “the midst of his trial” while “leaving sentencing” to the trial court
• determining that the defendant could not challenge the factual basis for his guilty plea on direct appeal
• noting that “the Court of Appeals held in this case that a defendant should be permitted to appeal from a plea of guilty whenever the record of the guilty plea is adequate to resolve the issue being appealed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).