Markus v. State

Lin 2013, appellant Benjamin W. Mar-kus entered a plea of guilty to two counts of rape. The victims were his daughter and step-daughter, aged four and six respectively. He was sentenced to serve an aggregate term of 360 months’ imprisonment. In 2014, Markus filed in the trial court a pro se petition for writ of error coram nobis in which he contended that the writ was warranted because he was incompetent when the plea was entered and a competency hearing should have been held before the plea was entered. The trial court denied the petition, and Markus brings this appeal. He reiterates in his…