Williams v. State

Appellant challenges the order denying his motion to withdraw his plea because he was not informed that the habitual offender sentences he received might affect the possibility of early release. We reverse.

Facing exposure to a potential mandatory life sentence, Appellant pled guilty in five cases under a negotiated agreement with the State. In exchange for his plea, the State amended the life felony to a second-degree felony and agreed to a sentence cap of twenty years as an habitual felony offender, fifteen years of which Appellant was to serve day for day as a prison releasee reoffender.…