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Withdrawing a Guilty Plea

By Baker Associates

Entering a guilty plea is often a very hard thing for a defendant to do. In most cases, a guilty plea is entered because the defendant does not feel that he or she has a very high likelihood of success at trial and that the state or federal government has made a fair offer in exchange for the convenience of avoiding trial. Other times, however, defendants enter guilty pleas because they are coerced into doing so by defense counsel, friends, or family, or because they simply do not comprehend the significance of doing so. Entering a guilty plea involves waiving many of the constitutional rights that Americans hold dear: the right to a fair trial on the merits, the right to a jury of one's peers, the right to confront witnesses against oneself, and so on...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on December 27, 2010 (boomark / email).