Angel Navarro v. State of Rhode Island

Chief Justice Suttell, for the Court.

The applicant, Angel Navarro, 1 appeals from a postconviction-relief judgment in favor of the State of Rhode Island and against Navarro. In those proceedings, Navarro challenged the trial court's acceptance of his nolo contendere plea on a second-degree murder charge. Navarro's plea was "capped" at sixty years, with forty years to serve and twenty years suspended with probation following his release, and the maximum sentence was imposed. This matter came before the Supreme Court pursuant to an order directing the parties to appear and show cause why the…