The original attorney for a 28-year-old Hutchinson man who wants to withdraw his plea after he claims ineffective counsel lost that battle Monday.

Judge Joe McCarville after hearing testimony from Sarah Sweet-McKinnon in the cases involving Matthew Sundgren believes he was given sound advice and denied the defendants motion.

Sundgren is already serving time in prison and awaiting sentencing in two other cases. He
entered a plea to auto burglary in one case, and felony theft in another and claims that he was either misled, coerced, mistreated, or unfairly taken advantage of by McKinnon. He also claims he was coerced into entering the plea and misled on how it would effect his post release supervision.

In one of the cases in question, Sundgren entered a plea to felony theft with two or more priors for stealing from Dillard’s back on November 26, 2011. In the second case, he entered a plea to misdemeanor theft for taking a 2004 Ford Explorer without permission. That was on November 25, 2011.

Sundgren is serving a prison sentence for unlawful manufacturing of methamphetamine in a case from Riley County, going back to 2005.

Again, Judge McCarville ruled against him in the case meaning that sentencing can proceed.