Adams v. State

(serving after June 14, 1978, by special assignment), dissenting.

Plaintiff, Doren S. Adams, based his claim for relief in this postconviction proceeding upon the contention the trial court failed to make a determination his tendered guilty plea was voluntary, intelligent and accurate before accepting it.

The majority recognizes that the resolution of the question whether Adams’ guilty plea was voluntarily tendered depends on whether testimony at the postconviction hearing may supply deficiencies in the record made at the plea-stage. Since I cannot agree with the majority’s resolution of the…