1. What are the admissive effects of a defendant's guilty plea? Specifically, does an unconditional guilty plea admit facts alleged in an indictment or information which are not essential (i.e., "surplus") to proving an element of the charged offense?

2. What scope of appellate review is required, and what standard of review is to be applied, in response to a factual-basis challenge to a guilty plea?

Whether an unconditional guilty plea admits surplus factual allegations not essential to proving an offense element, and what standard of appellate review applies to factual-basis challenges