Blinken v. State

Digges, Eldridge and Davidson, JJ., dissent. Davidson, J., filed a dissenting opinion at page 310 infra, in which Digges and Eldridge, JJ., concur.

In this case we shall determine whether it was error for a trial court to decline to permit a defendant to withdraw from a plea agreement.

We begin by outlining the facts. Appellant, Neal Blinken, was a thirty-five-year-old college graduate who, the State had charged, was extensively involved in a major marijuana ring with the assistance of his twenty-one-year-old girlfriend, Kari Lou Pfau. Ms. Pfau, who had completed the tenth grade, had lived with…