Judgment reversed, on the law; guilty plea vacated; and not guilty plea reinstated.
Where a defendant, during the taking of his plea of guilty, and despite maintaining his guilt, claims to have no knowledge of the crime to which he is admitting, it is error for the court to accept the plea (People v. Lang,
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