State v. Peters

STRUCKMEYER, Justice.

In this criminal case, Danny Lopez Peters was charged with and entered a plea of guilty to the sale of heroin, a narcotic. He was sentenced to five to seven years. The sentence was stayed for thirty days, during which time he was committed to the Pima County Jail in order to complete methadone treatment for addiction to heroin.

The defendant presents a number of questions which can be reduced to two, the first being whether defendant’s guilty plea was voluntarily and intelligently made in light of the fact that at the time of his plea defendant was under methadone…