COMMONWEALTH v. WISWALL

No. 95-P-1165.

43 Mass. App. Ct. 722 (1997)

COMMONWEALTH v. PATRICK WISWALL.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

October 22, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick Wiswall, pro se.

Eric Neyman, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: ARMSTRONG, BROWN. & JACOBS, JJ.


ARMSTRONG, J.

Henderson v. Morgan, 426 U.S. 637 (1976), established that a plea of guilty could not be regarded as having been made intelligently and voluntarily unless the defendant received adequate notice of each of the critical elements of the offense. The case does not require, however, that, in every instance, the judge explicate all the elements of the crime (426 U.S. at 647 n.18). Thus, a plea can be shown to be...

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