State v. Cooper

OPINION

CLABORNE, Presiding Judge.

Calvin Cooper (petitioner) filed petitions for review from the trial court’s summary denial of his petitions for post-conviction relief. The issue is whether petitioner raised a colorable claim of newly-discovered evidence which might have affected his sentence and, if so, whether the trial court is precluded from resentencing petitioner because of the stipulated sentences in his plea agreements.

I. Background

Petitioner, in four separate plea agree- merits, entered Alford 1 pleas to five counts of second degree burglary, four counts of theft, and one count of…