State v. Ross

EUBANK, Judge.

This appeal is another in the long line, of criminal appeals based on Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238, 89 S.Ct. 1709, 23 L.Ed.2d 274 (1969) and McCarthy v. United States, 394 U.S. 459, 89 S.Ct. 1166, 22 L. Ed.2d 418 (1969). The appellant contends that the trial judge failed to ascertain a valid “factual basis” for the plea of guilty and that he should have advised her of the consequences of her guilty plea relative to. illegal possession of heroin (A.R.S. § 36—1002), which requires that two years be actually served in prison if she was sentenced to prison as opposed to being…