Court Opinion

ID: 9712869
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 05:01:51.624003+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:14.935714
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Mr. JUSTICE GEORGE MORAN, dissenting: The record in this case is silent as to whether or not defendant’s plea of guilty was voluntary. Therefore, the majority holding is squarely contrary to the holding of the Unified States Supreme Court in Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238, 23 L.Ed.2d 274, 89 S.Ct. 1709. In People v. Reeves, 50 Ill.2d 28, our supreme court said, at pages 29-30: “The constitutional requirement, both pre and post Boykin, is that a plea of guilty be ‘intelligent and voluntary,’ Boykin adds the requirement that if the guilty plea is to withstand appellate or post-conviction review ‘the record must affirmatively disclose that the defendant who pleads guilty enters his plea understanding!)/ and voluntarily.’ [Citation.] This requirement has been in effect in Illinois since 1948. See former Rule No. 27A, 400 Ill. 22.” So long as the Boykin opinion stands, the majority opinion is wrong..-1 therefore dissent.