Huddleston v. State

OPINION

BARNES, Judge.

Case Summary

Stacey Huddleston, Jr., appeals the denial of his petition for post-conviction relief (“PCR petition”), which challenged his conviction for murder. We reverse and remand.

Issue

Huddleston raises two issues, one of which we find dispositive: whether Hud-dleston’s guilty plea to murder was invalid because he simultaneously protested his innocence. 1

Facts

The evidence, as elicited at Huddleston’s guilty plea hearing, was recounted as follows by this court in Huddleston’s direct appeal:

On December 29, 2004, Huddleston received a telephone call from his cousin, Ronald…