Court Opinion

ID: 9540589
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:18:02.584902+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:00:03.808219
License: Public Domain

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE CARTER, dissenting: The majority hold that defendant’s argument must “accommodate” the fact that he did expect to be placed on parole for 6 months following his prison sentence, and that he only received a longer term of parole than he was expecting at the time he entered his guilty plea. It must have come as quite a shock for the defendant to learn that instead of a 1- to 3-year sentence for which he bargained he received in reality a 1- to 6-year sentence. The court in United States ex rel. Baker v. Finkbeiner (7th Cir. 1977), 551 F.2d 180, stated, “We do not find the imposition of a two year parole term to be an insignificant punishment. The conditions for parole place a number of onerous burdens on the liberty of paroled individuals.” The record indicates to me that the defendant was under the distinct impression that he was to receive an indeterminate sentence of 1 to 3 years, and that his plea of guilty was not entered voluntarily and knowingly. For the above reasons, I would order that the defendant be released from that portion of the judgment requiring the defendant to serve a 3-year parole term on completion of his indeterminate sentence.