State v. Sutherland

STEVENS, Presiding Judge.

Ben Herbert Sutherland, the defendant in the Superior Court, appeals his judgment of guilt and his sentence after a plea of guilty in the Superior Court. This is one of the seemingly never ending appeals following the entry of a plea of guilty or as our Supreme Court expressed the thought in State v. Lycett, 107 Ariz. 46, 481 P.2d 839 (4 March 1971) :

“Following McCarthy v. United States, 394 U.S. 459, 89 S.Ct. 1166, 22 L.Ed.2d 418 (1969), and Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238, 89 S.Ct. 1709, 23 L.Ed.2d 274 (1969), a spate of guilty plea cases were filed in this court.”

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