Ritter v. State

OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

This appeal presents us with two important questions of law.

The first question concerns the proper seope of a Cooksey plea-a plea of no contest, with the defendant preserving the right to raise a dispositive issue on appeal. Specifically, we are asked to decide whether a Cook-sey plea can be valid when the issue preserved for appeal is the sufficiency of the evidence at grand jury. Subject to a potential exception that we explain below, we hold that the sufficiency of the evidence at grand jury is not a dispositive issue, and thus it is not a proper basis for a…