SEARS, Chief Justice.
In 2001, Verdice Boone pled guilty in Polk County to felony murder, aggravated battery, and arson. He received a life sentence for felony murder and a concurrent twenty-year sentence for the arson offense. In 2006, Boone filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea. "It is well-settled that when the term of court has expired in which a defendant was sentenced pursuant to a guilty plea, the trial court lacks jurisdiction to allow the withdrawal...
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