Numerous misstatements were made by the court, its clerk, and defense counsel in naming the charged crime and the crime to which defendant was then pleading guilty, all of which errors went uncorrected. Particularly in view of the vagueness of the factual allocution regarding the illegality of defendant's presence in a store, and the incorrect recital of the charge in his formal arraignment on the plea, defendant's guilty plea was fatally defective (see People v Lopez...
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