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Failure to Advise Defendant of Ineligibility for Early Release Credits Renders Guilty Plea Invalid
Loaded on June 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2012, page 30
A trial court’s failure to advise a defendant of his or her ineligibility for early release credits renders a guilty plea unknowing and involuntary, the Division Three Court of Appeals for the State of Washington held in an unpublished ruling.Michael Duke Coombes pleaded guilty to first-degree murder. Under Washington ...
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