Roberts v. State

OPINION

MATHIAS, Judge.

Brian B. Roberts (“Roberts”) pleaded guilty in Franklin Circuit Court to Class B felony burglary and Class D felony theft. He was ordered to serve an aggregate sentence of twenty years with five years suspended. Roberts subsequently filed a petition for postconviction relief arguing that his guilty plea was not knowing, intelligent, and voluntary, and that he received ineffective assistance of counsel. The trial court denied Roberts’s petition for post-conviction relief. Roberts appeals and raises two issues, which we restate as:

I. Whether Roberts’s guilty plea was…