Loop v. State

This is a review of an order denying the defendant’s pro se “motion for a new trial” following his guilty plea to the charge of burglary. The motion was denied after a hearing in which the defendant asserted that at the time of his guilty plea he was mentally unstable and that at the guilty plea hearing the trial court failed to require a factual basis to support the plea. The mental instability claim has apparently been abandoned on this review.

The threshold issue raised on the review is: Can the defendant (Donald Allen Loop, plaintiff in error) raise the alleged lack of a factual basis to…