State v. Williams

| ]Rather than address the assignment of error presented for review, the majority opts to set aside a guilty plea that no one has challenged without finding error patent or affording the litigants the opportunity to be heard.

This is not an instance where the state has charged the defendant with an offense that does not exist under our law or where a judge or jury has found the defendant guilty of such offense following a trial. Rather, the defendant’s knowing and voluntary guilty plea to attempted failure to register as sex offender was agreed to by the state and approved by the trial court.…