11 The state has charged defendant with a violation of La.R.S. 14:98, operating a vehicle while intoxicated, fourth offense, on the basis of three prior guilty pleas to driving under the influence conducted in a single proceeding on August 10, 2004, in Tennessee. Defendant moved to quash the bill of information on grounds that the available contemporaneous records of the pleas,
ie.,
the transcript of the guilty plea colloquy conducted by the trial judge with defendant, revealed that the trial court had failed to advise him of his privilege against self-incrimination, and that the pleas were therefore invalid for enhancement purposes. After conducting a hearing on the motion on December 4, 2008, the trial court denied the motion to quash on grounds that, considering the totality of the circumstances, defendant had been “afforded all of the constitutional protections and safeguards that [are] required certainly under the laws of the State of Tennessee, but more importantly under the laws of the State of Louisiana.” Defendant
The court of appeal specifically rejected the state’s attempt to import into the guilty plea colloquy the advice with respect to the privilege against self-incrimination he had received nearly a year earlier when he signed a form waiving his right to a preliminary hearing. Balsano, 09-0005 at 3 (“This form advised the defendant of his right against self-incrimination during the course of the preliminary hearing, not during sentencing or any other judicial proceeding.”). We need not reach that question because we find that the Fifth Circuit panel erred in reversing the trial court’s judgment and granting the defendant’s motion to quash the indictment solely on the basis of the perceived defect in the plea colloquy relating to defendant’s Fifth Amendment privilege. While the available contemporaneous record of the guilty plea shows that defendant did not receive advice with respect to his privilege against self-incrimination, the record also reveals that he otherwise entered knowing and voluntary guilty pleas that would likely withstand scrutiny on collateral attack in their home state. Under these circumstances, enforcing Louisiana’s rules for taking guilty pleas against these out-of-state convictions would neither advance the policies underlying the requirements for a knowing and voluntary guilty plea in this state nor promote the fundamental fairness that this Court’s jurisprudence regarding collateral attacks on guilty pleas used to enhance a defendant’s sentence has sought to protect.
According to the transcript of the plea colloquy on August 10, 2004, the trial judge in the Criminal Court of Tennessee at Memphis reviewed the charges to Iswhich defendant was entering pleas of guilty, the factual bases for the pleas, and the sentences negotiated with the state as part of a plea bargain. Thereafter, the court conducted the following exchange with defendant:
Q. You understand you don’t have to plead guilty?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. All right. [Defense counsel] presented you with two documents for you to sign, one a petition for waiver of trial by jury. That’s this document. It explains your rights, right to a jury trial, l'ight to confront witnesses, right to bring in witnesses to testify for you, right to testify yourself, tell your side of it.
If you were convicted by a jury, the Court would fix your punishment and you could appeal it. If you didn’t have a lawyer, the Court would appoint a lawyer for you. All of the rights I have explained are in that document.
And he presented you with a notice of enhanced punishment, which puts you on notice that if you pick up another DUI, they may treat it as a second or third, I don’t know, but the punishment will be greater on a second. You have to serve at least 45 days in jail. And on the third, a minimum of 120 days in jail and the appropriate fines. Do you understand that.
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Knowing all that, you still want to plead guilty?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Are you satisfied with [defense counsel’s] representation?
A. Yes, sir .... [but] if I had gone to trial, what would the maximum punishment have been?
Q. Well, didn’t he go over that with you and explain it to you? I told you in this document that you signed, notice of enhanced punishment, it points out that the punishment for a DUI first offense is from $350 to $1500 in fines and 48 hours. Second offense up to 11 months and ... 45 days in jail, $600 to $3500 in fines. Your third offense would be $1100 to $10,000 in fines and a minimum of 120 days in jail.
A. I understand now.... That’s all.
Q. All right. Are you sure you understand everything?
14A. Yes, sir.
Q. All right. I’ll accept Mr. Balsano’s pleas.
When the state requested a transcript of this guilty plea colloquy, it also asked Tennessee officials for a Boykin or waiver of rights form or court minutes reflecting the waiver of defendant’s rights. The Tennessee officials supplied the transcript of the plea colloquy and the waiver of a preliminary hearing executed by the defendant but did not provide either the guilty plea form to which the colloquy referred or the contemporaneous minutes of the plea. Thus, as the Fifth Circuit panel emphasized in its decision, the available contemporaneous records from Tennessee failed to establish that defendant received advice with respect to his privilege against selfin-crimination at trial, advice required not only by Louisiana but also by Tennessee law. 1
Only four months after this Court adopted its three-right rule following the decision in
Boykin v. Alabama,
Over the course of the following 40 years,
Jackson’s
interim rule became a major facet of this Court’s jurisprudence and is now a part of statutory law. La. C.Cr.P. art. 556.1. However, instead of solidifying, the jurisprudence fractured along fault lines giving rise to what has been described as a “stuttering approach to the application of federal constitutional law to state court proceedings in Louisiana,”
State v. Lewis,
| Jiowever, this Court has consistently allowed defendants to attack collaterally the validity of guilty pleas used to enhance their sentences, whether in habitual offender proceedings under La.R.S. 15:529.1,
Shelton,
In the present case, the first two stages of Carlos coalesced. The transcript of the guilty plea colloquy conducted on August 10, 2004, satisfied both the state’s burden of establishing the fact of the prior convictions and defendant’s representation by counsel, and the defendant’s burden of then showing an apparent infringement of his rights, ie., the failure of the trial court to advise him of his privilege against compelled self-incrimination at trial. Because the state did not, or could not, supplement this “imperfect” transcript with waiver forms or minutes from Tennessee which might have made up the difference, Carlos apparently dictated the decision of the Fifth Circuit panel in overruling the trial court and quashing the bill of information charging defendant with fourth offense DWI.
However,
Carlos,
and its progenitor
Shelton,
addressed prior Louisiana guilty pleas taken after December 7, 1971. Enforcement of
Jackson’s
three-right rule in that context was therefore related to the policies underlying the rule of facilitating the taking of voluntary guilty pleas in Louisiana and of providing an adequate record for review, thereby forestalling the need for later evidentiary proceedings and eliminating post-plea attacks.
Bowick,
This case therefore also implicates the Court’s decision in
State v. Holden,
| nFour months later, the Supreme Court ruled that the validity of a federal guilty plea may not be collaterally attacked in habeas proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 on the basis of violations of Fed. R.Crim.P. Rule 11 which are “neither con
In
Holden,
a majority of the Court read
Timmreek
to mean that “[wjhile waiver of the Boykin-listed constitutional rights arguably presents a more fundamental deficiency
... at the least
... in a collateral attack upon a federal guilty plea in an enhanced-punishment proceeding, the burden is upon the accused to show that plea was taken without a waiver of the
Boykin-listed
rights.”
Holden,
However, in later decisions, this Court treated
Holden
as merely a burden-shifting case which placed the burden on the defendant to prove on the basis of contemporaneous records that he did not receive his
Jackson
three-right advice and thereby relieved the state of an initial burden of proving that he did receive his three
Jackson
rights.
State v. Bolton,
In the present case, we think it clear that the extensive colloquy conducted by the Tennessee judge on August 10, 2004, fully discharged the state’s ultimate burden in the present case despite the court’s failure to advise defendant specifically that he was waiving his privilege against compulsory self-incrimination at trial. The trial court confirmed on the record the details of his plea bargain with the state regarding sentence, delved into the factual bases of the pleas, spoke with the defendant extensively regarding his understanding of the sentencing consequences carried by the charged crimes, impressed upon him that his guilty pleas would resolve all matters with the state except for sentencing, and 11smformed him that if he persisted in pleading guilty, he would not be coming back to court for a trial in which he could select a jury, challenge the state’s witnesses by confronting them before the fact finder, and present his defense by calling in his own witnesses and taking the stand to testify in his own right. The trial court thus advised defendant that his guilty plea waived four specific and essential constitutional trial rights, not only the right to a jury trial and to confront his accusers, but also his right to compulsory process,
Washington v. Texas,
In the context of all of the advice given, the trial court’s failure to mention specifically a fifth constitutional right, the privilege protecting a defendant from compelled self-incrimination at trial, cannot support a finding that defendant entered each of his guilty pleas without “a full understanding of what the plea connotes and of its consequences.”
Boykin,
Accordingly, the decision of the Fifth Circuit is reversed, the trial court’s denial of defendant’s motion to quash is reinstated, and this case is remanded to the district court for further proceedings consistent with the views expressed herein.
DECISION OF THE FIFTH CIRCUIT REVERSED; DENIAL OF MOTION TO QUASH REINSTATED; CASE REMANDED.
Notes
. See Tenn.R.Crim.P. 1 l(b)(l)(the court shall personally inform defendant in open court of his: (D) right to plead not guilty or, having already so pleaded, to persist in that plea; (E) right to a jury trial; (F) right to confront and cross-examine adverse witnesses; (G) right to be protected from compelled self-incrimination; and (H) that if he pleads guilty or nolo contendere, "there will not be a further trial of any kind except as to sentence.”)
. This aspect of
LeBlanc
left the dissenters, Dixon, Barham, and Summers, JJ., completely nonplussed.
LeBlanc
addressed two issues. First, whether, in the absence of a verbatim transcript of the plea colloquy, a trial court faced with a defendant's collateral attack on his final conviction had the authority to conduct evidentiary proceedings in an attempt to reconstruct the plea. This Court answered that question in the affirmative.
LeBlanc,
. The 1966 version of Fed.R.Crim.P. 11 in effect at the time the Supreme Court decided
Boykin,
and at the time of the federal guilty plea at issue in
Cressy,
was far simpler than
Rule 11 did not begin to elaborate on the advice federal district courts must give a defendant with respect to the rights waived by entering a guilty plea until the comprehensive revision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure by Congress in 1975. The amended Rule 11 adopted by Congress went far beyond the Supreme Court's own proposed revision of Rule 11, part of a package of proposed revisions of the rules sent by the Court to Congress in 1974. The Court's own Rule 11 would have required the district court to determine only whether the defendant understood the nature of the charge to which he was pleading, the penalties which the offense carried, "that he has the right to plead not guilty,” and "that if he pleads guilty there will be no further trial."
See
H.R.Rep. No. 94-247, 94th Cong., 1st Sess. 21-22, 1975 U.S.Code Cong. & Admin. News 674;
see also United States v. Henry,
. However, the Court's subsequent decisions in
Shelton
and
Carlos
changed one aspect of
Holden,
which agreed with
Lewis
that collateral attack on a prior guilty plea used to enhance sentence was confined to the contemporaneous records of the guilty plea colloquy.
Holden,
. This Court has not yet resolved whether the harmless-error provision of La.C.Cr.P. art. 556.1(E) applies to violations of art. 556.1(A)(3), specifying the trial rights waived by a guilty plea that a trial court must explain to a defendant before it accepts the plea, and
