Dixon v. State

Pope, Presiding Judge.

Anderson Dixon appeals his conviction of two counts of burglary and one count of attempting to elude an officer on the grounds that he was unfairly prejudiced by improper evidence that he had pled guilty to an earlier burglary. He asserts that in his prior plea he did not admit guilt because he pled under North Carolina v. Alford, 400 U. S. 25 (91 SC 160, 27 LE2d 162) (1970) which allowed him to maintain his innocence. We hold that because an Alford plea requires a court determination that there is a factual basis for the plea, and because in Georgia an Alford plea is…