A guilty plea does not operate as an impediment to an appeal on fitness grounds where fresh psychiatric evidence establishes that the accused was probably unfit to be tried at the time the plea was entered. Where such evidence is adduced on appeal, the R v RTI test applies and the conviction will be quashed unless the court is satisfied that the trial court, acting reasonably, must have found the accused fit to stand trial.
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