Cantu v. State

Ignacio Cantu appeals from the circuit court's denial of his A.R.Cr.P. 32 petition contesting his 1989 conviction for trafficking in cocaine, in violation of § 13A-12-231(2)(c), Code of Alabama 1975, pursuant to a guilty plea.1 For this conviction, Cantu was sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment and was fined $250,000. He did not appeal.

In his petition, Cantu alleged that his guilty plea was not voluntarily made with an understanding of the consequences of that plea; that his trial counsel was ineffective; and that the trial court was without jurisdiction to render the judgment or to impose the…