State v. Svoboda

This is an appeal from judgments entered on pleas of nolo contendere to two charges of burglary and one charge of failure to appear. Defendant was sentenced to a term of 3 to 10 years in the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex on one burglary charge, 6 years on the other, and 1 year on the failure to appear, the sentences to run consecutively. Defendant, who was represented by private counsel in the District Court proceedings, appears here by the Douglas County public defender. He has also filed a pro se brief.

Defendant’s counsel assigns as error the trial court’s participation in plea…