State v. Casson

ON APPLICATION FOR REHEARING

COOKS, Judge.

hWe granted rehearing to consider the correctness of our original opinion and conclusion therein. We now vacate our original judgment and find we erred in previously holding that “[a] new ground for withdrawal of a guilty plea, even if meritorious, may not be raised for the first time on appeal.”

In State v. Dixon, 449 So.2d 463, 464 (La.1984), the Louisiana Supreme Court stated it “has consistently permitted a constitutionally infirm guilty plea to be withdrawn after sentencing by way of appeal or post conviction relief. State v. Hayes, 423 So.2d 1111…