Was the plea valid?

QUESTION PRESENTED Due process requires that a guilty plea be voluntary, knowing, and intelligent. Here, the charging document omitted an essential element of the crime. At the plea hearing, the trial judge misinformed the defendant by omitting the same element in his summary of the crime, neither the prosecutor nor defense counsel corrected the judge, there was no allocution, and defense counsel has never said she informed the defendant privately about the missing element. Was the plea valid? u RULE 14(B) STATEMENT The parties in the Colorado Supreme Court were Kyle Brooks and the State of Colorado. The following is a list of all directly