State v. Loveless

DURHAM, Chief Justice:

INTRODUCTION

¶ 1 This case comes to us on a writ of certiorari to decide whether a district court may accept a guilty plea over the prosecution’s objection to one of two alternative charges pled in a single count. 1 In the district court the prosecution charged the defendant Jacob Loveless, in a single count of either aggravated assault or reckless endangerment. Mr. Loveless opted to plead guilty to reckless endangerment. The State challenged the district court’s decision to accept that plea over the prosecution’s objection. The court of appeals concluded that, while the…