Asserting innocence after pleading guilty does not provide sufficient reason for a trial court to grant a presentence request to withdraw the plea, the state Supreme Court has ruled.
The justices ruled unanimously in Commonwealth v. Carrasquillo that a trial court properly denied a defendant’s request to have his guilty plea revoked after he claimed innocence and said, among other things, that “the antichrist” had appeared to him.
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