Woods v. State

MAXWELL, J., for the Court:

¶ 1. Virgil Woods appeals the Warren County Circuit Court’s summary dismissal of his motion for post-conviction relief (PCR), in which Woods challenged the validity of his guilty plea to armed robbery and his thirty-five-year sentence. Because (1) Woods fails to demonstrate any conduct by his counsel rendered his plea involuntary, and (2) his sentence does not offend the Eighth Amendment, we affirm.

STANDARD OF REVIEW

¶ 2. In considering the dismissal of a PCR motion, we review the trial court’s findings of fact for clear error and its determinations of law de novo.…