State v. Robinson

¶23 (dissenting) — Criminal Rule for Superior Court (CrR) 3.1(b)(2) mandates a “lawyer shall be provided at every stage of the proceedings, including sentencing, appeal, and post-conviction review.” If a motion to withdraw a guilty plea under CrR 7.8* 12345***9 isn’t a “stage of the proceedings,” what is it? Moreover, such a motion may also be characterized as postconviction review, albeit postconviction review that initiates in the trial court as distinguished from personal restraint petitions which are filed in the Court of Appeals or this court. RAP 16.3(c).

Sanders, J.

¶24 The majority…