Task: Text Completion
Input (English): guilty. [¶ 8] Rule 11(a)(1) establishes that a defendant must be treated as having pled not guilty if the court has refused to accept a guilty or nolo contendere plea. If the court does not affirmatively accept the plea and decides instead to reserve its decision, such action constitutes a refusal, at least temporarily, to accept the plea. See 1 Cluchey & Seitzinger, Maine Criminal Practice § 11.2 at IV-27 (1992) (“If the court decides to accept the plea, it does so affirmatively on the record.”). By operation of Rule 11(a)(1), therefore, Willis’s decision to retract his nolo contendere pleas, communicated to the court prior to its acceptance of the pleas, required the court to enter pleas of not guilty on Willis’s behalf. Accord North Dakota v. Welch, 356 N.W.2d 147, 149 (N.D.1984) (<HOLDING>). [¶ 9] We hasten to add that if the court had 
 Holding statements: (A) holding that a defendant who is allowed to withdraw his plea must either withdraw his plea to all charges or to none when his plea to all charges was part of an agreement with the state (B) holding jeopardy attaches when the guilty plea is accepted (C) holding criminal defendant does not have constitutional right to have guilty plea accepted by court (D) holding that a defendant may withdraw a guilty plea as a matter of right before it is accepted by the court based on ndr crim p 32d3 which states that a defendant may not withdraw his plea of guilty as a matter of right once the plea has been accepted by the court  alteration in original (E) holding that a criminal defendant must provide a fair and just reason to support withdrawal of his guilty plea even when that plea has not yet been accepted by the district court
Output (English): (D)