Pettit v. State

GOSHORN, Judge.

John Pettit pled guilty to armed burglary, grand theft of a firearm and grand theft pursuant an agreement with the State requiring him to testify against a codefend-ant and to take a polygraph examination testing his truthfulness. In return, the State agreed to a downward departure sentence of two years’ community control and to release Pettit on his own recognizance pending presentence investigation.

Pettit failed to appear or testify at the codefendant’s trial because, as he explained:

Plus addicted to drugs. I was in cocaine really heavily out there, intravenously and smoking…