In re Kenneth Barber, Jr., Theodore C. Smith, Jr., Danielle M. Rousseau, John Burke

*368 ¶ 1. This case raises the question of whether this Court's decision in In re Bridger , 2017 VT 79 , --- Vt. ----, 176 A.3d 489 , regarding the requirements of Vermont Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(f) is retroactive to cases already final on direct review. We conclude that Bridger announced a new criminal procedural rule and that the new rule does not apply to cases where direct review was concluded at the time Bridger was decided. Thus, in those cases, pending or future collateral proceedings must be evaluated under pre- Bridger standards. Under the then-existing standard, we affirm the…