Lewis v. State

Brian S. Miller, Judge.

Appellant David Lewis entered a negotiated plea of guilty to six felony charges in exchange for a sentence recommendation of 360 months. Lewis, however,failed to appear at his sentencing hearing. After Lewis was eventually apprehended, the trial court denied Lewis’s motion to withdraw his plea, and sentenced Lewis to a prison sentence of 864 months. On appeal, Lewis argues that the trial court erred when it denied his motion to withdraw his guilty plea before the court entered a sentence that deviated from the sentence contemplated by the plea negotiations. Lewis also…