Dorsey v. State

Blackburn, Presiding Judge.

Having pled guilty to two counts of shoplifting and to one count of giving a false name to police, Terrell J arrod Dorsey appeals the trial court’s denial of his motion to withdraw his guilty plea, contending his plea was not voluntary. Specifically, he claims that he understood that once he signed the pre-hearing guilty plea form, he had no choice but to continue to plead guilty to the judge. Inasmuch as the record belies this claim, we affirm.

Indicted on two counts of theft by shoplifting and on one count of giving police a false name, Dorsey initially pled “not…