Legal Opinion
State v. Howard
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided April 19, 1988PublishedCited by 102 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
POLLOCK, J.
This case concerns whether the trial court must inform a defendant of the parole consequences of a sentence to the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center (ADTC or Avenel) before accepting a guilty plea pursuant to a plea agreement. We also must determine the standard of proof by which the trial court must determine the propriety of an Avenel sentence. In the Law Division, immediately after being sentenced, defendant moved to withdraw his guilty plea because he had not been informed of the consequences of the plea. The trial court denied the…
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