Commonwealth v. Duest

The defendant appeals from an order denying his second motion that he be permitted to withdraw a guilty plea to an indictment for armed robbery. The plea was taken in 1971. The defendant has since been convicted of first degree murder in Florida and has been sentenced to death. See Duest v. State, 462 So. 2d 446 (Fla. 1985). The evidence in the Florida trial was to the effect that the defendant’s avocation was “rolling gay guys” (id.) and that, on the night in question, he had left a gay bar with the victim in the victim’s automobile, had stabbed the victim eleven times in the victim’s…