Court Opinion

ID: 9629901
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 09:52:13.254051+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:07:26.391787
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POMEROY, Justice
(concurring).
I agree that the guilty plea colloquy which preceded the trial court’s acceptance of appellant’s plea of guilty was inadequate under the standards prevailing at the time the plea was entered. I am also of opinion that the Court properly reaches the merits of appellant’s challenge to his guilty plea, despite the fact that no petition to withdraw the plea was filed in the trial court. See my concurring opinion in Commonwealth v. Rodgers, 465 Pa. 379, 386, 350 A.2d 815 (1974). Accordingly, I concur in the reversal of the judgment of sentence and in the remanding of the case for a new trial.
MANDERINO, J., joins in this concurring opinion.