Fonville v. State

Summary

The Supreme Court affirmed Fonville’s convictions and sentence after independently reviewing the record under the applicable withdrawal procedure. It held that Fonville’s knowing, intelligent, and voluntary guilty plea waived his challenges to the search, discovery, and sufficiency of the evidence, while his ineffective-assistance claims were not considered for the first time on direct appeal. The Court also found that counsel had conscientiously examined the record and that no arguably appealable issue existed.