State v. Brown

The defendant appeals from the judgments of conviction rendered following his guilty pleas entered pursuant to North Carolina v. Alford, 400 U.S. 25, 91 S. Ct. 160, 27 L. Ed. 2d 162 (1970), to three counts of violating drug laws. The defendant claims that the court erred in accepting his pleas in that (1) it misinformed him of the mandatory minimum sentence, (2) it did not determine on the record that the defendant understood the nature of his pleas under the Alford doctrine, (3) it failed to state on the record that the defendant understood the nature of the charges against him, and (4)…