Clewley v. State

POMEROY, Justice.

Like many guilty pleaders recently Russell Clewley has had second thoughts about the voluntariness of his plea. This, despite the fact that when he appeared before the Presiding Justice with a petition to waive indictment and to proceed by information and waive appointment of an attorney to represent him, he said, in response to the question “Can you tell me why?” (he wished to waive counsel) :

“Well, we figured that we are guilty and we might as well take whatever punishment the Court does hand out. We was caught with the car, so why waste the taxpayers’ money of this state…