COBB, Judge.
The appellant, James Conlan, pled guilty to obtaining unemployment benefits by fraud pursuant to a plea agreement under which the state would recommend a sentence of 100 days in the county jail plus a period of probation within which to make restitution. A successor trial judge imposed a prison sentence of 40 months without affording Conlan the opportunity to withdraw his plea. He urges this as error.
The state argues that it fulfilled its bargain...
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