Brown v. State

HUNSTEIN, Chief Justice.

We granted Michael Anthony Brown a certificate of probable cause to appeal the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus in order to determine whether the record of Brown’s guilty plea established that he affirmatively waived his constitutional rights under Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U. S. 238 (89 SC 1709, 23 LE2d 274) (1969). For the reasons that follow, we affirm the habeas court’s denial of Brown’s petition.

The record establishes that Brown in 1993 pled guilty to financial transaction card fraud and was sentenced to three years probation. In the course of the…