Galvin v. State

On this appeal, Galvin claims his waiver of counsel and his plea of guilty were not voluntarily and understandingly made; that the trial court was aware he had a possible defense and should not have accepted his plea of guilty without making a factual determination of his guilt.

We need not discuss Galvin’s waiver of counsel because in our view he is entitled on other grounds to a reversal and to the withdrawal of his plea of guilty. In State v. Reppin (1967), 35 Wis. 2d 377, 151 N. W. 2d 9, this court adopted the Tentative Draft of the American Bar Association’s Minimum Standards for Criminal…