Haight v. Williamson

OPINION OF THE COURT

Appellant, Randy Haight, pursuant to CR 76.36(7)(a), petitions review by this Court as a matter of right. The principal issues presented are: (1) whether appellant is entitled to specific enforcement of a pretrial plea agreement at his retrial where said retrial resulted from an appellate court order to grant appellant’s motion to withdraw his plea of guilty and to reinstate the original indictment, (2) whether prose-cutorial vindictiveness is to be implied from the Commonwealth’s pursuit of the penalty of death upon retrial after promising at the first trial to recommend…