Commonwealth v. Burno

LIPEZ, Judge:

This is a Commonwealth appeal from an order permitting withdrawal of defendant’s guilty pleas, vacating the judgment of sentence imposed on those pleas, and ordering a new trial. We agree with the Commonwealth that the lower court’s order is inconsistent with Commonwealth v. Newell, 486 Pa. 474, 406 A.2d 733 (1979). Therefore we reverse the order of the court below, reinstating the guilty pleas and judgment of sentence.

Defendant was charged in 1974 with murder generally, as well as robbery and conspiracy. Defendant’s counsel arranged a plea bargain, whereby defendant would plead…