Simoneaux v. State

¶ 58. This case is another post-conviction relief proceeding in which this Court must determine whether an adequate factual basis exists in the record of the plea hearing to support the circuit court’s acceptance of the defendant’s felony guilty pleas. After a thorough and meticulous review of the entire record before the circuit court judge when he accepted Richard Simoneaux’s six guilty pleas, I cannot conclude that there was a sufficient factual basis to conclude that Simoneaux’s conduct fell “within the ambit of that defined as criminal.” Because the majority declines *41to recognize this…