Pedro Reyes v. State of Rhode Island

Justice GOLDBERG,

with whom THE CHIEF JUSTICE joins, concurring in part and dissenting in part. '

I join the majority’s well-written opinion clarifying this Court’s standard of review of a hearing justice’s summary dismissal of an applicant’s postconviction-relief (PCR) application and its affirmance of the hearing justice’s summary dismissal of Reyes’s claim that his 1994 nolo contendere plea violated Rule 11 of the Superior Court Rules of Criminal Procedure and was not knowing, intelligent, and voluntary.1 I *662also unhesitatingly join the majority’s insightful decision to abrogate the…