Court Opinion

ID: 9739688
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 20:19:29.592831+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:13.453939
License: Public Domain

VANDE WALLE, Chief Justice,
concurring specially.
I concur in the majority opinion. Under Rule 11(d), NDRCrimP, this is the correct result.
I agree with Justice Levine insofar as she urges an amendment of Rule 11 to require that if a judge rejects a recommendation for sentencing, the defendant may withdraw the guilty plea and be tried for the offense, or the defendant may accept the sentence imposed. Although such a procedure may result in less realistic plea bargaining by the defendants, that result *320is, in my opinion, outweighed by the real possibility that defendants do not always understand the Rule 11 process as well as prosecutors, defense counsel and judges would like to believe.