Case Name: PEOPLE v. CHAMBERS
Court: Michigan Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1971-04-29
Citations: 33 Mich. App. 302
Docket Number: Docket No. 9901
Parties: PEOPLE v. CHAMBERS
Judges: Before: J. H. G-illis, P. J., and Fitzgerald and T. M. Burns, JJ.
Reporter: Michigan appeals reports; cases decided in the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Volume: 33
Pages: 302–303

Head Matter:
PEOPLE v. CHAMBERS
Criminal Law — Plea of Guilty — Nonjurisdictional Defects— Waiver — Improper Identification.
A defendant who enters a voluntary plea of guilty while represented by competent counsel waives all nonjurisdictional defects in prior stages of the proceedings; nonjurisdictional defects include an alleged improper identification of the defendant and an alleged illegal confrontation with the complaining witness.
Appeal from Wayne, James N. Canham, J.
Submitted Division 1 April 1,1971, at Detroit.
(Docket No. 9901.)
Decided April 29, 1971.
Leave to appeal applied for.
Robert A. Chambers was convicted, on his plea of guilty, of larceny from a person. Defendant appeals.
Affirmed.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Gahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Dominick R. Garnovale, Chief, Appellate Department, and Arthur N. Bishop, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
Billy R. Adams, for defendant on application for delayed appeal.
Harold Helper, for defendant on appeal.
Beference for Points in Headnote
21 Am Jur 2d, Criminal Law § 495.
Before: J. H. G-illis, P. J., and Fitzgerald and T. M. Burns, JJ.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
On July 2, 1968, the defendant, Robert Allen Chambers, pleaded guilty to the offense of larceny from a person. Defendant was fully informed of his right to a trial by judge or jury, to the maximum sentence he could receive, and to his right to an attorney at a trial at which the prosecution would have to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and at which defendant would not have to take the stand.
On appeal defendant contends that his rights were violated in that prior to a witness's identification of the defendant, she overheard a conversation between police officers concerning the defendant's possible involvement in other crimes and that defendant was forced into an illegal confrontation with the complaining witness.
A defendant who enters a voluntary plea of guilty while represented by competent counsel waives all nonjurisdictional defects in prior stages of the proceedings. People v. Collins (1968), 380 Mich 131; People v. Catterson (1967), 5 Mich App 488; People v. Dobine (1963), 371 Mich 593; Crockett v. Haskins, Superintendent (CA 6, 1966), 372 F2d 475.
In the instant case the plea was properly taken in accordance with GCR1963,785.3.
Affirmed.