State v. Bolin

Patricia Ann Blackmon, Administrative Judge.

Gary Bolin, defendant-appellant, appeals the decision of the trial court convicting him of aggravated murder and aggravated robbery upon his guilty plea and sentencing him accordingly. Bolin assigns the following four errors for our review:

“I. Finding Gary Bolin competent to enter a plea of guilty, when the evidence was clear that Mr. Bolin was not competent to stand trial, violated Mr. Bolin’s right to due process because the competency standard for pleading guilty is the same standard as that for standing trial.

“II. Gary Bolin was denied effective…