Cases | State v. Clark, 566 A.2d 1346 | 2018
The defendant pled nolo contendere to attempted assault and robbery and to grand larceny. On appeal, the defendant claimed that the State violated the plea agreement by questioning crime victims and eliciting their opinion that the defendant should receive a sentence longer than that called for by the plea agreement. The court affirmed the sentence. The trial court offered to permit the defendant to withdraw his pleas, and there was no evidence in the record that his decision not to do so was involuntary or uninformed. The record of the initial plea hearing established that the defendant understood the full array of legal consequences that attach to a guilty plea.