State v. Sion

This is an appeal from an order vacating appellee Nessim Jaime Sion’s plea to first degree grand theft on the grounds that a factual basis for the plea was not established other than through stipulation of counsel. We reverse as we conclude that apart from the stipulation of counsel, the record before the court disclosed a factual basis for the plea.

Sion was charged by information with one count of first degree grand theft of currency of $100,000 or more. According to the arrest affidavit in this case, Sion had been a patient of his medical doctor victim. Sion befriended the doctor and…