Commonwealth v. Kroh

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• recognizing that the Commonwealth’s inability, as a matter of law, to fulfill a term of a plea bargain results in a finding that it breached the plea agreement
• explaining that Commonwealth's legal inability to fulfill promise made in plea bargain resulted in breach of plea agreement such that defendant's guilty plea was not knowing and voluntary
• acknowledging defendant had option either to withdraw guilty plea or to obtain performance of the plea agreement, and granting defendant's choice of specific performance
• acknowledging defendant had option either to withdraw guilty plea or to obtain specific performance of the plea agreement, and granting defendant’s choice of specific performance
• “There is an affirmative duty on the part of the prosecutor to honor any and all promises made in exchange for a defendant’s plea.” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).