In re the Personal Restraint of Reise

¶1 Michael John Reise seeks relief from personal restraint to withdraw his straight guilty plea to second degree murder due to newly discovered evidence of a witness. We hold that under the general rule, a defendant pleading guilty (not by a Newton1 plea), renders irrelevant the question of whether the State could have proved guilt — either that the newly discovered evidence would change the result or is not sufficient. Thus, Reise’s guilty plea generally bars a later collateral attack based on newly discovered evidence. And although a superior court must allow a defendant to withdraw a…