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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

927 A.2d 1287
    STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, v. PAMELA HAYNES, DEFENDANT-PETITIONER.
    July 6, 2007.
   To the Appellate Division, Superior Court:

A petition for certification of the judgment in A-2033-05 having been submitted to this Court, and the Court having considered the same;

And the record having disclosed that the trial court did not obtain from defendant directly the factual basis for her plea of guilty to a violation of probation, as required by Rule 3:9-2,

And the trial court having failed to afford defendant her right of allocution at sentencing for her violation of probation, as required by Rule 3:21-4(b),

And good cause appearing;

IT IS ORDERED that the petition for certification is granted, and the matter is summarily remanded to the trial court for a proceeding at which defendant either shall provide an adequate factual basis for her plea of guilty pursuant to Rule 3:9-2 or shall withdraw the plea and proceed to trial on the charge of violation of probation; and it is further

ORDERED that if defendant elects to confirm her plea of guilty by providing the court with a satisfactory factual basis for its entry, the trial court shall thereafter resentence defendant, ensuring that she has the opportunity to exercise her right of allocution pursuant to Rule 3:21-4(b).

Jurisdiction is not retained.