Brown v. State

Mikell, Judge.

Elmore Brown, Jr. appeals the trial court’s order denying his motion to withdraw his guilty plea to child molestation, contending that he did not knowingly or voluntarily enter the plea because he was impaired by medication at the time. We affirm.

When a defendant enters a plea of guilty, and subsequently challenges the validity of the guilty plea, the [s]tate may meet its burden , of demonstrating that the plea was intelligently and voluntarily entered by showing on the record of the guilty plea hearing that the defendant was cognizant of all of the rights he was waiving and the…