State v. Rodriguez

The opinion of the court was delivered by

CONLEY, J.A.D.

Defendant was indicted on two counts of fourth-degree theft, N.J.S.A. 20:20-3. Pursuant to a plea bargain in which the State agreed not to seek incarceration, he admitted under oath to the theft. That plea was thereafter withdrawn. We are not told why. A second guilty plea was again offered, during which defendant under oath again admitted to the theft. The plea bargain was similar to the first but at the time of sentencing the trial judge rejected the offer in light of defendant’s extensive prior record of which, apparently, the State…