State v. Mildenhall

DURHAM, Justice:

In this consolidated appeal, we treat two separate criminal cases against defendant. In the first case, defendant claims the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to allow him to withdraw his plea of guilty to forcible sex abuse. In the second case, a jury found defendant guilty of sodomy on a child. Defendant claims four errors in the second trial. He alleges that the trial court (1) improperly admitted evidence of his guilty plea in the first case, thus depriving him of a fair trial, (2) erred in denying his motion for a new trial based on the State’s alleged failure…