State v. Edwards

The defendant appeals from the judgment of conviction following his guilty plea to sale of narcotics in violation of General Statutes § 21a-277 (a), possession of narcotics in violation of General Statutes § -2 la-279 (a), and hindering prosecution in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-166. The defendant claims that the trial court (1) failed to advise him of the consequences of his guilty plea, (2) should not have accepted his Alford plea to hindering prosecution as knowing, intelligent, and voluntary where the state’s asserted factual basis was inadequate to support…