Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-08-24 16:55:28.764769+00
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*500Wilkie, J.
(concurring). While I join in the af-firmance of the orders in this case, there are circumstances under which a hearing should be held by the trial court on a motion to withdraw a guilty plea. The particular circumstances I refer to are those in which the defendant petitions to withdraw a guilty plea for the reason that a plea bargain was made, which bargain was not kept, and concerning which the record is inadequate. In Farrar,1 Mr. Chief Justice Hallows and the writer took the position that when a plea bargain is asserted, the trial court should see to it that the terms of the plea bargain are spread upon the record. As we noted in Farrar,2 in the usual situation, when a defendant enters a guilty plea he does not mention the bargain —instead he says that there were no promises made. Then, after pleading guilty, the plea bargain is not kept by the state and the defendant moves to withdraw the plea. The majority would say that in such a situation the defendant would have no right to a hearing on his motion because “the record sufficiently refutes the allegations raised by the defendant in the motion.” This is contrary to the ruling in Santobello v. New York,3 in which case the United States Supreme Court recently held (1971) that the failure to keep a plea bargain is a basis for the withdrawal of a guilty plea.
I would require a hearing on a motion to withdraw a guilty plea whenever the defendant asserts that his plea was induced by an unkept bargain. It would only be after the complete details of a plea bargain became a matter of record that no hearing would become discretionary with the trial court because of the lack of merit in the defendant’s contention.
*501I am authorized to state that Mr. Chief Justice Hallows and Mr. Justice Heffernan join in this concurrence.

 Farrar v. State (1971), 52 Wis. 2d 651, 662, 191 N. W. 2d 214 (Hallows, C. J., and Wilkie, J., concurring); see also: Bressette v. State, ante, p. 232, 239, 194 N. W. 2d 635 (Wilkie, J., dissenting).

 52 Wis. 2d at 663.

 (1971), 404 U. S. 257, 92 Sup. Ct. 495, 30 L. Ed. 2d 427.