People Ex Rel. Ryan v. Roe

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• holding that a sentence agreed to by the parties and imposed by the trial court is void when in violation of a statute
• holding that estoppel did not apply in a negotiated plea where the sentence agreed to by the parties and imposed by the court was in violation of statutory requirement; amended the sentencing order to appropriately reduce the defendant’s sentence
• holding that estoppel did not apply in a negotiated plea where the sentence agreed to by the parties and imposed by the court was in violation of statutory requirement; amended the sentencing order to appropriately reduce the defendant's sentence
• supreme court exercised its discretion and fashioned an appropriate remedy where a guilty plea had been induced by a legally unfulfillable promise
• supreme court exercised its discretion and fashioned an appropriate remedy where a guilty plea had been induced by a legally unfulfillable promise
• “[T]he trial court had no authority to order, and the State had no authority to agree, that the defendant’s eight-year sentence was not subject to truth-in-sentencing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).