People v. Blount

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a defendant must move to withdraw his or her plea in order to avoid waiving the right to challenge an imposed sentence
• holding that a defendant waived appellate review of proportionality where the trial court sentenced him consistently with his plea agreement that provided for 20 to 40 years in prison plus two years for felony-firearm, but his sentencing guidelines recommended a minimum term of 12 to 25 years
• noting and emphasizing “that [the] defendant received exactly the sentence to which he previously had agreed and may not now challenge that sentence, because he has made no effort to withdraw his plea”
• when a defendant receives exactly the sentence to which he previously had agreed to, he may not challenge that sentence unless he makes an effort to withdraw the plea agreement
• “[A] defendant who pleads guilty and is sentenced in accordance with a plea bargain and sentencing agreement waives the right to challenge the sentence unless there is also an attempt to withdraw the plea for a sound legal reason.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).