State v. Jamar J. Myers

Summary

The Court held that Myers must be allowed to withdraw his felony-murder guilty plea because he entered a single global plea agreement that expressly preserved his right to appeal the suppression ruling, prevailed on that appeal, and thereby lost evidence that had also been used against him in the felony-murder case. The Court treated the motion as governed by the conditional-plea and suppression rules rather than the general plea-withdrawal framework. The holding was limited to the particular circumstances of this case and did not decide whether a successful appeal involving one indictment always permits withdrawal of all pleas in a global agreement.