Aguirre-Mata v. State

JOHNSON, J.,

dissenting in which PRICE, J., joined.

In Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238, 243, 89 S.Ct. 1709, 23 L.Ed.2d 274 (1969) the United States Supreme Court held that due process requires an adequate record illustrating that a defendant’s guilty plea was “intelligent and voluntary.” The Court further held that the record must show that a defendant who pleads guilty “has a full understanding of what the plea connotes and of its consequences.” Id. Here appellant was sentenced to ninety-nine years confinement. Is there a more direct consequence of a plea than incarceration? How can a guilty…