Where a fitness for trial inquiry is conducted but the offender is found fit (and was never actually unfit or significantly impaired in capacity to plead), the plea of guilty entered after the fitness determination is not to be treated as having been entered at the earliest opportunity for the purpose of the guilty plea discount. The distinction turns on whether the offender was actually unfit or significantly impaired, not merely whether a fitness inquiry was conducted.
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