Case Name: PEOPLE v. BRATTON
Court: Michigan Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1973-03-28
Citations: 46 Mich. App. 1
Docket Number: Docket No. 13739
Parties: PEOPLE v BRATTON
Judges: Before: Holbrook, P. J., and Fitzgerald and Van Valkenburg, JJ.
Reporter: Michigan appeals reports; cases decided in the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Volume: 46
Pages: 1–3

Head Matter:
PEOPLE v BRATTON
1. Criminal Law — Plea of Guilty — Standards—Retroactivity.
Plea of guilty proceedings are not to be reviewed against the standards enunciated in the United States Supreme Court decision of June 2, 1969, where the plea of guilty was accepted prior to that decision.
2. Criminal Law — Plea of Guilty — Factual Basis — Preliminary Examination.
The Court of Appeals will vacate the acceptance of a defendant’s plea of guilty and remand for a determination of the factual basis for the acceptance of the plea where the record below shows that a factual basis was established only by reference to the preliminary examination.
Appeal from Recorder’s Court of Detroit, Thomas L. Poindexter, J. Submitted Division 1 January 3, 1973, at Grand Rapids.
(Docket No. 13739.)
Decided March 28, 1973.
Leave to appeal denied, 389 Mich 814.
Calvin Bratton was convicted, on his plea of guilty, of assault with intent to rape. Defendant appeals. Affirmed, and remanded for further proceedings.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Dominick R. Carnovale, Chief, Appellate Department, and Arthur N Bishop, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
Norton Rosin, for defendant on appeal.
Reference for Points in Headnotes
[1, 2] 21 Am Jur 2d, Criminal Law § 484 et seq.
Before: Holbrook, P. J., and Fitzgerald and Van Valkenburg, JJ.
Former circuit judge, sitting on the Court of Appeals by assignment pursuant to Const Í963, art 6, § 23 as amended in 1968.

Opinion:
Holbrook, P. J.
Defendant was charged on an information filed November 1, 1966, with forcible rape, sodomy, and gross indecency. He pled guilty January 11, 1968, to a lesser charge of assault with intent to rape. We have cause to discuss essentially two issues on defendant's appeal here.
First, defendant requests us to retroactively apply the holding of Boykin v Alabama, 395 US 238; 89 S Ct 1709; 23 L Ed 2d 274 (1969), and set aside his guilty plea. While it is apparent from the record that defendant was not informed of his privilege against compulsory self-incrimination or of his right to confront his accusers, it should be emphatically clear by now that pre-Boykin guilty pleas are not to be reviewed against the standards enunciated in Boykin. People v Carlisle, 387 Mich 269, 276 (1972); People v Duffield, 387 Mich 300 (1972), footnote 17; People v Wickham, 41 Mich App 358 (1972); Winegar v Dept of Corrections, 41 Mich App 318 (1972).
Second, we are confronted with the question of whether or not the trial court in accepting defendant's guilty plea had first properly established the factual basis of that plea in such a way as to convince the court that the crime had in fact been committed by defendant. GCR 1963, 785.3(2); People v Taylor, 387 Mich 209 (1972); People v Seifert, 17 Mich App 187 (1969). This issue was not briefed by either defendant's appellate counsel or the people because defendant was granted leave to appeal April 25, 1972, on only the Boykin issue, although defendant had raised this issue in a delayed motion for a new trial and in his application for leave, to appeal. Leave was probably denied on the non-Boykin issue because of the presumed applicability of People v Donald T Moore, 21 Mich App 150 (1970). Moore held that the trial court's failure to require a defendant to establish the elements of the offense by his own testimony is not fatal to the acceptance of his plea of guilty if the complaining witness gave explicit testimony of defendant's actions at the preliminary examination and this testimony was noted at the plea taking and acknowledged to be true by the defendant. However, since Taylor, supra, Moore has not been good law. In Taylor the Michigan Supreme Court held, among other things, at 225, footnote 10:
"It is not sufficient that such facts appear on the record of the preliminary examination. See People v Zaleski, 375 Mich 71, 81 (1965), and People v Rufus Williams, 386 Mich 277, 284-285 (1971)."
This Taylor holding has been amply criticized in People v Schneff, 43 Mich App 413 (1972). However, as in Schneff, and People v D'Argis, 44 Mich App 186 (1972), we are bound to follow the rule enunciated by the Supreme Court in Taylor. Our review of the plea-taking record below shows that the factual basis of defendant's plea was established only by reference to the preliminary examination, and hence Taylor requires a vacating of the acceptance of defendant's guilty plea, and remand to determine a factual basis for acceptance of the guilty plea.
Affirmed, except as to remand.
All concurred.