State v. Dillard

¶ 1. At the time of Myron C. Dillard's plea in this case, all parties mistakenly believed that due to a "persistent repeater" penalty enhancer, he was facing mandatory life imprisonment at trial. With that understanding, Dillard accepted the State's offer to drop the penalty enhancer as well as a false imprisonment charge (on which the defendant faced a maximum ten-year bifurcated sentence), in exchange for the defendant's "no contest" plea. Dillard *335accepted this offer, on the advice of his attorney, believing that he was reducing his maximum exposure from mandatory imprisonment for the…