People v. Didley

The defendant pled guilty to two counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance in contemplation of receiving a specific sentence. He was not informed, however, that in addition to the stated terms and conditions of his sentence, he would be required to serve a two-year term of mandatory supervised release (formerly known as parole). We are now called on to determine whether a trial court’s failure to admonish the defendant as to the applicable term of mandatory supervised release renders the defendant’s plea of guilty involuntary. We conclude that it does.

On April 13, 1989, the…