Brown v. State

Mikell, Judge.

Dewayne Brown appeals the trial court’s order denying his motion to withdraw his nonnegotiated guilty plea to the offenses of kidnapping, rape, aggravated sodomy, and armed robbery. Brown was originally charged in a ten-count indictment with six additional offenses, including aggravated assault and five counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, but an order of nolle prosequi was entered as to these six counts, and Brown pleaded guilty to the remaining four violent felonies. Brown was sentenced to life in prison for the rape and the aggravated sodomy,…