Whetsell v. State

How courts have described this case

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• review of trial error is unnecessary where a defendant, after conviction, admitted guilt in open court
• guilty plea freely and voluntarily entered into acts as a waiver of all nonjurisdictional defects and defenses
• “The general rule is that guilty pleas freely and voluntarily entered, act as a waiver of all non-jurisdictional defects and defenses . . . .”
• “The general rule is that guilty pleas, freely and voluntarily entered, act as a waiver of all non-jurisdictional defects and defenses, including the claims of a violation of a constitutional right prior to the plea.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).