State v. Bowers

ERICKSTAD, Chief Justice.

Defendant Richard Irvin Bowers appeals from a memorandum decision and order denying his motion to withdraw his guilty plea. We affirm.

There are two distinct versions of the facts which led to Bowers’ arrest on May 23, 1987. The State contends Bowers stabbed a stranger with a triangular shaped piece of broken glass and severely wounded the stranger in the neck. The victim, Richard Siedel, was a resident of the Donaldson Hotel located in downtown Fargo, North Dakota. According to Siedel, Bowers attacked him when he was leaving a bathroom inside the hotel. Siedel…