P. v. Myles
Defendant pleaded no contest to a charge of second degree murder. On the morning of defendants sentencing, the trial court received a handwritten letter from defendant seeking to withdraw her plea. In the letter, defendant claimed that a witness to the killing had admitted to an investigator that she had lied in prior accounts. The letter did not identify the investigator or the witness, nor did it describe the nature of the claimed admission. The trial court denied the request to withdraw defendants plea after concluding that her decision to plead was undertaken freely and voluntarily.
Defendant claims that the trial court abused its discretion in denying her request to withdraw her plea and that her attorney provided ineffective assistance by not speaking in support of her request. Court affirm.
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