Shabazz v. State

Eldridge, Judge.

During a mass plea hearing in the Superior Court of Thomas County wherein nine defendants pled guilty to felony offenses of varying severity, sixteen-year-old Yusuf Shabazz pled guilty to the offenses of incest and statutory rape. Shabazz was given 20-year concurrent sentences on each count. He appeals, claiming that the record does not establish a factual basis for his plea to the crime of incest and that he received ineffective assistance of counsel during the entry of his plea. As the record, on its face, supports both contentions, we reverse.

1. A criminal defendant may…