Coon v. State

DANAHY, Chief Judge.

The defendant appeals her judgment and sentence for trafficking in cocaine, challenging the trial judge’s refusal to allow the defendant to withdraw her plea of guilty. We reverse.

The trial judge accepted the defendant’s plea of guilty at the conclusion of a hearing at which counsel for the defendant and counsel for the state outlined the terms of a plea bargain agreement. It was agreed that the defendant would testify truthfully against a codefendant in exchange for which the state would file a motion pursuant to the substantial assistance statute, section 893.135(3),…