Ex Parte Fletcher

I concur in Part III, holding that Fletcher is not entitled to enforce what she says she understood to be an agreement that the total amount of restitution would be no more that $200,000, and I concur in Part IV, holding that the trial court, when ordering Fletcher to pay restitution, was authorized to impose a duty to pay interest. However, I cannot join, and therefore respectfully dissent from, Parts II and V, which effectively allow Fletcher to retain the considerable benefits of her guilty plea while pleading poverty as a means of escaping her own obligations under the plea.

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