State v. Howell

¶ 1. This is a review of a published decision of the court of appeals affirming a judgment and order of the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County, Jean W. DiMotto, Judge.1 The circuit court denied, without an evidentiary hearing, An-drae D. Howell's postconviction motion to withdraw his guilty plea, holding that the plea colloquy, complaint, and sentencing sufficiently demonstrated that Howell understood that he was aiding and abetting his cousin Joseph Sharp in first degree reckless injury, Wis. Stat. § 940.23(l)(a) (2003-04),2 and that there was a sufficient factual basis to support the plea.

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