In Re Parks

¶ 1. Defendant Leonard Parks appeals a superior court order granting summary judgment to the State on a post-conviction relief (PCR) petition in which defendant sought reversal of assault-and-robbery and larceny-from-a-person pleas based on his failure to explicitly waive important constitutional rights. Because the record lacks any evidence that defendant knowingly and voluntarily pled to the charges or that defendant deliberately relinquished the double jeopardy violation on the face of the charges, we reverse and vacate defendant’s convictions.

¶ 2. In October 2004, the State charged…