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Editor's note: opinion released June 30, 2000

SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA

No. 00-K-0073 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. TROY ANTHONY FILER

On Writ of Certiorari to the Third Circuit Court of Appeal

PER CURIAM:* Granted. The decision of the Third Circuit is reversed,

defendant's conviction and sentence are reinstated, and this case is remanded to the court of appeal for consideration of the defendant's assignments of error pretermitted on original appeal. The court below erred in two respects. In State v.

Guzman, 99-1528, p. 6 (La. 5/16/00), ___ So.2d ____, this Court expressly overruled its prior decision in State v. Godejohn, 425 So.2d 750, 751 (La. 1983), and thereby made clear that a guilty plea colloquy is not part of the record for purposes of error patent review. Accordingly, "whether a

trial court complied with La.C.Cr.P. art. 556.1 is not subject to error patent review but must instead be designated as an assignment of error by the defendant on appeal." 1528 at 6, ___ So.2d at _____. art. 556.1(A) incorporates this Guzman, 99-

In addition, while La.C.Cr.P. Court's preference for

personal colloquies between a trial judge and a defendant entering a guilty plea, see State v. Williams, 384 So.2d 779, 781 (La. 1980) ("The only realistic means of assuring that the

Traylor, J., not on panel. II,

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