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Brown v. State

Citations

  • 412 S.E.2d 399
  • 306 S.C. 381
  • 1991 S.C. LEXIS 264

How courts have described this case

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  • holding a judge’s misinformation to defendant about required time in jail before parole eligibility invalidated voluntary nature of guilty plea
  • guilty plea is not rendered involuntary if the defendant is not informed of the collateral consequences of his sentence
  • the imposition of a sentence may have a number of collateral consequences, and a guilty plea is not rendered invalid if the defendant is not informed of the collateral consequences
  • “The imposition of a sentence may have a number of collateral consequences ... and a plea of guilty is not rendered involuntary in a constitutional sense if the defendant is not informed of the collateral consequences.”
  • “The imposition of a sentence may have a number of collateral consequences, however, and a plea of guilty is not rendered involuntary in a constitutional sense if the defendant is not informed of the collateral consequences.”

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Judges: Harwell, Gregory, Chandler, Finney, Toal

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