Commonwealth v. Hines

OPINION

ROBERTS, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County denying appellant’s petition for postconviction relief. In the petition, appellant sought to *558withdraw his guilty plea, as he had in the trial court both before and after sentencing, on the ground that it was involuntarily entered. We conclude that the trial court improperly accepted appellant’s plea of guilty since the guilty plea colloquy demonstrated no factual basis for appellant’s guilty plea and no basis to conclude that appellant understood the nature and elements of the charges…