David Hooker v. State of Indiana

Case Summary

[1] In October of 2001, the State entered into a plea agreement with David Hooker, pursuant to which he would plead guilty to Class C felony burglary. At the change-of-plea hearing, while Hooker denied having to push the already-open door to gain entry to the residence in question, he did admit that he had squeezed through the opening. The trial court accepted Hooker's guilty plea. In 2017, Hooker filed an amended petition for post-conviction relief ("PCR") in which he claimed that the trial court erred in accepting his guilty plea because he had denied his guilt at the hearing.…