Opinion ID: 1837980
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Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Any shortcomings in petitioner's showing stem directly from the State's failure to comply with a provision of section 663A.6, The Code. It provides:

Text: If the application is not accompanied by the record of the proceedings challenged therein, the respondent shall file with its answer the record or portions thereof that are material to the questions raised in the application. This failure perhaps can be traced to the county attorney's willingness to concede the fact petitioner had been sentenced for a seven year term, and of the later correction. In any event the failure to provide the record is the State's not petitioner's. II. It was error to hold petitioner's complaint could be ignored on the basis the trial court could correct the sentence. This was not the question before the trial court; nor is it the question before us. The question was and is whether petitioner was correctly informed of the possible maximum sentence before entering his plea. The underlying question is controlled by a now familiar principle. In State v. Reppert, 215 N.W.2d 302 (Iowa 1974), relying on Tucker v. United States, 409 F.2d 1291, 1295 (5 Cir. 1969) we held: It is said to be `well settled' that a plea of guilty is invalid as not being understandingly entered if the defendant does not know the maximum penalty for the offense. The State argues petitioner's testimony offered in this proceeding reveals he had been disinterested in the possible maximum sentence. His testimony does disclose his concern at the time was as to whether the sentence to be imposed would run concurrently with or consecutive to another sentence he was to serve. His testimony does not reveal a recollection of what, if anything, was said at the time on the question of possible maximum sentence. The rule we have cited from State v. Reppert, supra, does not depend upon the interest held or expressed by an accused. The rule makes it the trial court's duty to require a showing the accused is fully and accurately informed as to the possible maximum sentence.