Court Opinion

ID: 9742000
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 21:05:12.486758+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:27.727851
License: Public Domain

Clinton, J.,
concurring.
I concur in the portion of the opinion insofar as it pertains to the determination of the motion for a new trial under section 29-2101, R. R. S. 1943. I also concur in the result.
I believe it is unnecessary to discuss the matter of withdrawal of the plea of guilty. This was not a post conviction proceeding nor an application for a writ of error coram nobis. The defendant pled no facts which would have entitled him to relief under either of these two remedies. He does not even plead that his plea of nolo contendere was involuntarily entered.
The judgment of conviction having become final, the District Court had no power to entertain a motion to set aside the conviction apart from a proper exercise of one of the three above remedies. I write this concurrence solely because I fear that the extended discussion of withdrawal of the plea in the opinion may lead some to the conclusion that the trial *121court may, apart from the above three remedies, permit withdrawal of a plea of nolo contendere or guilty after it has become final.