Court Opinion

ID: 9719869
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 08:07:21.338624+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:10.720523
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE APPLETON, dissenting: I respectfully dissent from the majority’s decision. I find the circumstances of the trial court’s postplea addition, requiring defendant’s attendance at sentencing, indistinguishable from the circumstances presented to us in Collier. Of greater import, a plea and its attendant terms are agreed to by a defendant, not the attorneys. Here, the plea was taken fully with all of the requisites of Supreme Court Rules 402(a) through (c) (177 Ill. 2d Rs. 402(a) through (c)). At the point defendant entered her plea, the plea was accomplished. If the trial court later sought to add an additional term to the plea agreement, defendant, and not her attorney, needed to agree to it. Defendant’s answer “yes, sir,” following the trial court’s unilateral modification of the plea agreement, does not, in context, indicate that defendant agreed to a modification of her plea.