In Re the Welfare of Bryan

Defendant, by this appeal, challenges the validity of two guilty pleas entered in juvenile court. We sustain the challenges.

On July 11, 1978, Kirk Bryan, then aged 13, was charged with second-degree burglary. The charge was thereafter reduced to criminal trespass. The record before us does not disclose whether or not this was the result of a plea bargain. Defendant entered a plea of guilty in juvenile court on August 17, 1978. His written statement on plea of guilty is incomplete because section 10 thereof is blank. It contains no statement of the factual basis for his plea as required by…