State v. Fluhr

ÁLLBEE, Justice.

The proper procedure for acceptance of guilty pleas has in the past been the subject of much debate. See, e. g., Henderson v. Morgan, 426 U.S. 637, 96 S.Ct. 2253, 49 L.Ed.2d 108 (1976) (3-4-2 decision); State v. Reaves, 254 N.W.2d 488 (1977) (4-1-4 decision). Our legislature recently removed some of the uncertainties in this area by enacting Iowa R.Crim.P. 8(2). It is the application of this rule to a determination of the adequacy of defendant Fluhr’s guilty plea to which we now turn.

The proceedings with which we are primarily concerned took place on October 2, 1978, at the…