Contreras v. State

PHILLIPS, Chief Justice.

Appellant Mark Angelo Contreras appeals the trial court’s judgment, based upon a guilty plea made pursuant to a plea bargain agreement, which convicted him of “robbery”1 and sentenced him to five years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections. In his one ground of error appellant contends that the sentence imposed was not the disposition for which he had bargained. We agree and therefore reverse the judgment.

Where a plea bargain agreement is breached, even if inadvertently and in good faith, a defendant is entitled to either specific enforcement of the…