Title: State v. Whitney

State: vermont

Issuer: Vermont Supreme Court

Document:

ENTRY ORDER

                      SUPREME COURT DOCKET NO. 89-560

                            JANUARY TERM, 1991


State of Vermont                  }          APPEALED FROM:
                                  }
                                  }
     v.                           }          District Court of Vermont,
                                  }          Unit No. 2, Addison Circuit
                                  }
Earl R. Whitney                   }
                                  }          DOCKET NO. 428-6-89Acr


             In the above entitled cause the Clerk will enter:


     Defendant's motion to reargue under V.R.A.P. 40 is denied.  The motion
does not state points of law or fact, overlooked or misapprehended by the
Court, which would affect the result.  We have, however, recalled and
revised the opinion to reflect our consideration of defendant's federal
constitutional claims.

     Motion for reargument is denied.







                                   BY THE COURT:



                                   Frederic W. Allen, Chief Justice


                                   Ernest W. Gibson III, Associate Justice


[ ]  Publish                       John A. Dooley, Associate Justice

[ ]  Do Not Publish
                                   James L. Morse, Associate Justice


                                   Denise R. Johnson, Associate Justice

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NOTICE:  This opinion is subject to motions for reargument under V.R.A.P. 40
as well as formal revision before publication in the Vermont Reports.
Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Vermont Supreme
Court, 111 State Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05602 of any errors in order
that corrections may be made before this opinion goes to press.


                                No. 89-560


State of Vermont                             Supreme Court

                                             On Appeal from
     v.                                      District Court of Vermont,
                                             Unit No. 2, Addison Circuit

Earl R. Whitney                              January Term, 1991


Linda Levitt, J.

John T. Quinn, Addison County State's Attorney, Middlebury, for plaintiff-
  appellee

Margaret A. O'Rourke, Bonnie Barnes and Lauren Mickey, Law Clerk (On the
  Brief), of Sessions, Keiner, Dumont, Barnes & Everitt, Middlebury, for
  defendant-appellant


PRESENT:  Allen, C.J., Gibson, Dooley, Morse and Johnson, JJ.


     ALLEN, C.J.   Defendant appeals the sentence imposed on his conviction
for driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor.  We affirm.
     At sentencing the court granted defendant's motion to strike a 1974 DUI
conviction, but refused to strike a 1985 DUI conviction.  Defendant claimed
that the 1985 conviction, based on a guilty plea entered while defendant was
represented by counsel, was invalid under V.R.Cr.P. 11(f).  Defendant
argued that the court in that proceeding had not shown that it was
satisfied that there was a "factual basis for the plea," as required by the
Rule, and had not shown that the elements of the offense were explained to
defendant, with the result that the State could not demonstrate the
voluntariness of the plea.  See In re Dunham, 144 Vt. 444, 448-49,