People v. Dodds

Defendant pled guilty to one count of possession of child pornography with 18 months probation and requirement that he register as sex offender for 10 years. Defendant and his counsel, State, and judge all mistakenly believed that he was required to register only for 10 years, although Illinois Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) required registration for natural life. Defendant's guilty plea was involuntary because his counsel was ineffective, as he failed to advise Defendant, that lifetime SORA registration was a certain and mandatory consequence of guilty plea to sex offense.(LAVIN and EPSTEIN, concurring.)