Supreme Court of California

When taking a conditional plea of guilty or nolo contendere to an accusatory pleading charging a felony, Penal Code section 1192.5 requires the trial court to garner information regarding the factual basis either from defendant or his counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/19/2004
• Published 02/19/2004

Judges

• MORENO, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Cindi B. Mishkin, San Diego, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and James R. McGrath, Glendale, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Laura Whitcomb Halgren, Robert M. Foster, Pamela A. Ratner Sobeck and Elizabeth A. Hartwig, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.