What is a guilty plea?
A guilty plea is an admission that you committed the alleged offense. The effect of a guilty plea admits all the criminal facts alleged and waives your right to defend yourself. No additional facts are needed to reach a verdict. A plea of guilty waives all but jurisdictional objections, impermissible sentence objections, and the objection that no offense is charged. It entirely relieves the prosecution of the burden of proving any facts. If an accused pleads guilty to a felony, they are waiving their right to an appeal except on jurisdictional grounds or the imposition of an impermissible sentence.
