OPINION
FIDEL, Judge.
The defendant entered a guilty plea to a crime that rendered him statutorily ineligible to earn release credits while incarcerated. At the change of plea hearing, the trial court did not advise defendant of this special statutory condition to his plea. The sole issue on appeal is whether the trial court's failure to do so rendered the plea involuntary.
We conclude that the trial court erred. We hold that a trial court must inform...
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