State v. Russell

Defendant was charged by indictment with aggravated robbery and first-degree murder, Minn. St. 609.185 and 609.245. Pursuant to a plea agreement negotiated by his attorney, defendant pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder, Minn. St. 609.19, and was sentenced by the district court to a prison term of 3 to 25 years, with the sentence to run concurrently with a sentence of 3 to 10 years defendant was then serving for another crime.

On this appeal from judgment of conviction, defendant contends that the district court should not have accepted his guilty plea because the record…