In Re the Personal Restraint of Taylor

(dissenting)—The majority holds Mr. Taylor's guilty plea was not voluntary because the record established at the hearing on the plea failed to provide any factual basis upon which the judge could rely, other than the statement made by Mr. Taylor in his own words, which failed to set out the elements of the crime to which he pleaded guilty. I disagree.

In In re Keene, 95 Wn.2d 203, 210, 622 P.2d 360 (1980), the only information supplied to the judge for his determination as to whether a factual basis for the petitioner's guilty plea existed was the statement made by the petitioner in his own…