The order should be reversed and proceedings remanded for a hearing on the issue whether the pretrial publicity was so extensive as to preclude the right to a fair trial and was the dominant or exclusive reason for defendant's plea of guilty.
The widespread intensive emotional publicity about a juvenile gang killing with trial pressed upon defendant while the flood of publicity was at the crest raises...
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