Jacob Lee Schmidt v. State of Iowa

WATERMAN, Justice (dissenting).

I respectfully dissent and would affirm the district court's summary judgment and the court of appeals decision affirming it under our long-standing precedent enforcing *802the legal effect of guilty pleas. I join Justice Mansfield's separate dissent. This year, the United States Supreme Court resoundingly reiterated a fundamental legal tenet: a valid guilty plea waives the defendant's constitutional right to trial and right to confront witnesses and "relinquishes any claim that would contradict the 'admissions necessarily made upon entry of a voluntary plea of…