Vittitoe v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• emphasizing that “the [c]ircuit [c]ourt did not advise Vittitoe of the mandatory minimum sentence, nor [was] there evidence that he knew of it from any other source”
• conviction and sentence based on guilty plea reversed where trial court found that defendant was not aware of mandatory minimum sentence at time of plea
• \A canvas of state law authority reveals no fewer than two dozen cases holding that guilty pleas made with ignorance of a minimum or mandatory minimum sentence are unenforceable\
• where the Court indicated that the failure of the judge to inform a defendant of sentencing requirements may be rebutted by evidence that the defense counsel informed the defendant of such requirements or that defendant had received such information from other sources

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).