State v. Lopez

The defendant, Carlos Lopez, appeals the Superior Court’s (Coffey, J.) denial of his post-conviction motion for a new trial, which sought to withdraw his guilty pleas to two drug-related charges on the grounds that they were not knowingly or voluntarily made. The petitioner, Guillermo Rivera, appeals the Superior Court’s (Nadeau, J.) denial of a post-conviction claim that he received ineffective assistance of counsel when he pled guilty to sexual assault because his then-counsel had a conflict of interest. We shall refer to Lopez and Rivera hereafter as the defendants. Both defendants applied…