Pedro Reyes v. State of Rhode Island

OPINION

Justice INDEGLIA,

for the Court.

The applicant, Pedro Reyes (Reyes or applicant), appeals from the denial of his postconviction-relief application.1 It is Reyes’s contention that his 1994 plea of nolo contendere to the offense of maintaining a narcotics nuisance should be vacated because the plea was not knowing, intelligent, and voluntary. He also argues that the hearing justice erroneously entered judgment for the state on his claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, that the hearing justice failed to consider other arguments, and that the attorney appointed in connection with his…