Ex Parte Pruitt’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. ““... In exchange for a plea of guilty in Cause No. 5948, the prosecutor agreed to recommend that Applicant’s punishment would be assessed at twenty (20) years confinement ..., and that the prosecutor would not recommend that an affirmative finding that a deadly weapon was used or exhibited during the commission of the offense be made. The plea bargain agreement was submitted to and approved by the trial court. Applicant contends that his plea of guilty ... was not freely, intelligently and voluntarily entered in that his retained attorney advised him prior to the guilty plea proceeding that his initial eligibility for parole on a twenty (20) year sentence for aggravated robbery without an affirmative finding that a deadly weapon was used or exhibited during the commission of the offense would be from thirty-six (36) months to sixty (60) months with ‘good time credit’ [and that] the advice of his retained attorney ... induced the guilty plea in Cause No. 5948.” 1”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex parte Wilson

2. “If appellant’s understanding of his parole eligibility is manifested as an affirmative part of the plea bargain and that understanding is relied on as an essential part of the quid pro quo for pleading guilty, then appellant’s plea is involuntary if that part of the plea bargain is not or cannot be carried out.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex Parte Moussazadeh