Court Opinion

ID: 9761500
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 01:44:11.091457+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:24:09.708382
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MANDERINO, Justice,
dissenting.
I must dissent. Appellant argues that counsel was ineffective for failing to recognize and advise him of the inadequacy of the guilty plea colloquy. I agree. In the colloquy the elements of the crime of murder of the third degree were not discussed and as such the plea cannot have been said to be voluntarily, intelligently and knowingly made. Commonwealth v. Tabb, 477 Pa. 115, 383 A.2d 849 (1978), Pa.R.Crim.P. 319(a). Counsel was ineffective for failing to so advise appellant and appellant should be permitted to withdraw his plea.