Ex Parte Nelson Earl Williams

Summary

The Court held that the trial court’s voluntary admonishment that the defendant would receive probation—when probation was statutorily unavailable for aggravated robbery—rendered the guilty plea involuntary, and therefore granted the habeas relief and remanded the case. The opinion was joined by concurring and dissenting separate opinions, the dissent arguing the conviction should stand and the concurrence in part dissenting that the majority over‑expanded the admonishment requirement.