State v. Sanchez

— We decide whether, in each of these consolidated cases, the petitioner should be permitted to withdraw his plea of guilty because he entered it in exchange for a promise from the prosecutor to recommend a particular sentence to the sentencing judge. At the sentencing hearing, a person other than the prosecutor recommended a longer sentence than had been agreed to in the plea agreement. We hold that since neither of these people, Sanchez’s investigating officer (IO) nor Harris’s community corrections officer (CCO), was a party to the plea agreement, no breach of the plea agreement occurred.…