Court Opinion

ID: 9685846
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 15:06:39.826441+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:11.095215
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CRIPPEN, Judge
(dissenting).
Action on a guilty plea may be just even though it is proven that the defendant was not informed about collateral consequences of a conviction. Alanis v. State, 583 N.W.2d 573, 578-79 (Minn.1998). But it is quite another thing to suggest that collateral consequences of conviction must be ignored by counsel, the parties, or the court-or more specifically, that the trial court may not consider collateral consequences of a conviction in determining whether to make a downward dispositional departure. If there were authority for the latter conclusion, I would agree with the rationale carefully enunciated by the majority. There being no such authority, I respectfully dissent from the decision to reverse.