Court Opinion

ID: 9740538
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 20:36:59.663233+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:18.737039
License: Public Domain

AMDAHL, Chief Justice
(dissenting).
I respectfully dissent.
The record establishes that it was not until the day of sentencing that the court, the prosecutor, and defense counsel became aware that a mandatory minimum executed 21-month sentence was the required sentence. None of them was aware at the time of the plea of the existence of such a fact and all of them believed that the presumptive sentence was 21 months stayed.
The record also establishes that at the time he entered his plea, the defendant knew that he could be sentenced to a maximum term of 5 years and that he had been told by his counsel that probation was likely and that he had not been informed that the mandatory minimum law was applicable and that it mandated execution of the sentence.
Under such circumstances, I cannot agree that his plea was intelligently entered and would hold that he should be permitted to withdraw his guilty plea and stand trial, whether or not it is true, as the majority opinion indicates, that “a trial would most assuredly result in the same disposition.”