Commonwealth v. Furr

The defendant, Willie Furr, appeals from the denial of his motion to withdraw his plea of guilty1 to charges arising *102out of a robbery in which he participated in 1997. The defendant claims that his motion should have been allowed because the colloquy conducted during the plea hearing did not adequately ensure that his plea was made intelligently and voluntarily, and because his plea was the product of improper coercion. We affirm the denial of the defendant’s motion.

Facts and proceedings. We summarize the facts recited by the Commonwealth and admitted by the defendant at the plea hearing. In…