NEHRING, Justice:
¶ 1 This case presents the questions of whether Utah Code section 77-13-6(2)(b) creates a jurisdictional bar to a criminal defendant's withdrawal of a guilty plea, and whether the thirty-day limitation in which a plea must be withdrawn is unconstitutional. We hold that the bar is jurisdictional and constitutionally permissible.
BACKGROUND
¶ 2 On October 29, 1998, Scott Joseph Merrill hid among rocks overlooking a road...
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