Brown v. State

Doyle, Judge.

Following the denial of his motion to withdraw a negotiated guilty plea, Derrick Maurice Brown filed this appeal contending that the trial court erred by (1) denying his claim for ineffective assistance of counsel, and (2) finding that his guilty plea was knowing and voluntary. Finding no merit in Brown’s arguments, we affirm.

The record shows that in January 2008, Brown, a staff member at Central State Hospital, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a person in custody, 1 based on an allegation that he forced a resident to perform oral sex on him. As part of the plea negotiation,…