State v. Buchanan

Keenzi/er, J.

This case is concerned with the vexing problems faced by trial courts as to the correct procedure to be followed in accepting guilty pleas in criminal cases where a defendant has withdrawn his plea of not guilty and enters a plea of guilty.

This apparently simple procedure becomes somewhat complicated when trial courts and defense counsel do not scrupulously adhere to the mandates of the United States Constitution and Criminal Rule 11 regarding the .rights of the defendant and the procedure to be followed at the time the plea is taken.

Prior to the adoption of the new Criminal…