State v. Bonds

CLEMENS, Presiding Judge.

Movant Andre Bonds appeals from the trial court’s denial of his motions to withdraw a guilty plea and set aside a three-year sentence. (Rules 27.25 and 27.26, V. A.M.R.) We reverse and remand.

Bonds, an eighteen-year-old first-time offender, pleaded guilty to a charge of purse stealing. Before accepting his guilty plea the trial court determined that Bonds pleaded voluntarily and understood the nature of the charge against him, the trial rights he was relinquishing and the statutory range of punishment. The court did not ask whether he understood the trial court alone…