State v. Howard

Defendant, who pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter (Minn. St. 609.20[2]) as a negotiated plea in return for the dismissal of an indictment charging him with second-degree murder and aggravated assault (§§ 609.19 and 609.225, subd. 2), contends on this direct appeal that the trial court should have refused to accept the plea because there was an *224inadequate factual basis for it in that his answers to the prosecutor’s questions suggested the possibility of self-defense as a defense. Defendant’s answers disclose that, while involved in an argument with the deceased victim which was…