695 A.2d 414
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided May 2, 1997
Superior Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1997-05-02
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Decided 1997-05-02
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2017
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¶1concurring.
¶2I join the majority Opinion and write separately to emphasize that a court should be permitted to change, substitute, or otherwise alter offenses in a defendant’s guilty plea only in those rare circumstances where it is beyond question and absolutely clear from the record that the defendant actually intended, voluntarily, knowingly, and intelli*422gently, to enter a guilty plea to the substituted offense.