Court Opinion

ID: 9676272
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 05:19:46.58224+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:15:33.569515
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WIGGINS, Justice
(dissenting).
The record is unequivocal that at. the time the district court accepted the defendant’s guilty plea, the court failed to advise the defendant that the sentence for voluntary absence .began “at the expiration of any. existing sentence.” Iowa Code § ,901.8 (2003). I believe this failure violated our rule requiring the court to inform the defendant of “[t]he mandatory minimum punishment, if any, and the maximum possible punishment provided by the statute defining the offense to which the plea is offered.” Iowa R.Crim. P. 2.8(2)(b)(2). For the reasons stated in the dissenting opinion in State v. Straw, 709 N.W.2d 128, 145 (Iowa 2006) (Lavorato, C.J;, dissenting), I would presume prejudice, vacate the judgment of sentence and conviction, and remand the case to the district court. .
LAVORATO, C.J., joins this dissent.