Hanley v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Springer, J.:

On March 2, 1978, several days into a jury trial in which he was being tried for murder and kidnapping, appellant Gramby Andrew Hanley, Sr., decided to plead guilty to murder in the first degree. On that day there was presented to the court a written “plea agreement,” approved by Hanley’s counsel and signed by Hanley, in which it was agreed that Hanley would “plead guilty to Count Two of the Information filed in the above-entitled case, the degree of the crime specifically to be Murder of the First Degree. ...” In exchange for such a plea, the district…