MacDonald v. Delaware

WALSH, Justice.

In this appeal from the Superior Court’s denial of a motion for postconviction relief, the appellant contends that he should have been permitted to withdraw guilty pleas that he claims he entered into without the effective assistance of counsel and under conditions of duress. Upon a full review of the record, we conclude that, given the irregularities in the process leading up to the entry of the guilty pleas — including the consent of the defendant’s counsel to changing the conditions of the defendant’s confinement — the disputed guilty pleas were neither intelligently nor…