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Title: State V. Wright
Author : Arizona Supreme Court
Release Date : January 01, 1968
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 53 KB

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This case came to us on a petition for review of the decision of the Court of Appeals, Division 1, reported at 5 Ariz. App. 357, 427 P.2d 338 (1967). The American Civil Liberties Union filed a brief amicus curiae in support of defendant-appellant's position. We granted the petition primarily for the purpose of re-examining our position in Rascon v. State, 47 Ariz. 501, 512, 57 P.2d 304 (1936). There, as in the case at bar, the prosecuting attorney, while in the presence of the jury questioned defendant regarding a plea of guilty given earlier in the same proceeding, but subsequently withdrawn with leave of court and substituted with a not guilty plea. In both cases, the respective courts ruled that it was not error to admit such evidence. On appeal of the instant case to the Court of Appeals, that court approved the admissibility of the withdrawn plea of guilty in view of our position in Rascon.