Robinson v. State

I respectfully dissent from the majority’s opinion remanding this Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., petition to the circuit court for further proceedings. The majority holds that the circuit court failed to rule on Courtney Laverle Robinson’s claim that his counsel’s material misrepresentation about the sentence he would receive if he entered a blind plea, as opposed to entering a plea pursuant to the State’s offer, rendered his guilty plea involuntary.

The majority, finding the claim sufficiently pleaded, remanded the cause, because, it stated, “the appellant’s claim could be meritorious, [and] the…