PETERSON, J.
Howell D. Forrest appeals the imposition of a five year sentence without giving him the opportunity to withdraw his negotiated plea of nolo contendere, a plea he understood would incur only 13 months incarceration.
The record supports Forest's allegations. The harsher sentence was imposed after a Preliminary Sentence Investigation revealed previous convictions that increased the scoresheet results and caused the trial court to disregard the negotiations...
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