LINDOFF v. State

OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

Alaska Criminal Rule 11(c) contains a list of warnings and advisements that a judge must give to a criminal defendant, as well as questions that the judge must pose to the defendant, before the judge accepts the defendant's plea of guilty or no contest. This appeal requires us to examine and interpret the rules that apply when a defendant seeks to withdraw a plea of guilty or no contest based on the assertion that the judge who accepted their plea failed to comply with one or more of the provisions of Criminal Rule l1(c).

The defendant, Newton Lindoff, was indicted for…