State v. Onate

KAREN KING MITCHELL, Judge.

Antonio Onate appeals the denial of a “Motion for New Trial” that he filed following his convictions and sentences, entered upon guilty pleas, for felonious restraint and second-degree (felony) murder. Finding no authority for a “Motion for New Trial” following a guilty plea, the plea court converted Onate’s motion into a Rule 29.07(d)1 motion to withdraw the guilty pleas and, thereafter, denied the motion on its merits. Though the court should have simply denied the motion for lacking any legal authority, rather than converting it and ruling on the merits, we…