Case Name: PEOPLE v. MAXWELL
Court: Michigan Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1970-07-01
Citations: 25 Mich. App. 186
Docket Number: Docket No. 7,728
Parties: PEOPLE v. MAXWELL
Judges: Before: McGregor, P. J., and Bronson and Mahinske, JJ.
Reporter: Michigan appeals reports; cases decided in the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Volume: 25
Pages: 186–187

Head Matter:
PEOPLE v. MAXWELL
Criminal Law — Plea of Guilty — Withdrawal of Plea — Discretion.
There is no absolute right on the part of the accused to withdraw a plea of guilty but withdrawal rests within the sound discretion of the court and is not reversed unless there is an abuse; therefore, the trial court did not err in denying defendant’s pre-sentencing motion to withdraw his plea of guilty sought or defendant’s assertion that his attorney induced the plea, having said that his case was hopeless, where such assertion was unsupported and uncorroborated and the record belies his allegations.
Reference for Points in Headnote
21 Am Jur 2d, Criminal Law § 503 et seq.
Appeal from St. Clair, Stanley C. Schlee, J.
Submitted Division 2 June 8, 1970, at Lansing.
(Docket No. 7,728.)
Decided July 1, 1970.
Leave to appeal denied August 27, 1970. 383 Mich 824.
Kenneth R. Maxwell was convicted, on his plea of guilty, of forgery. Defendant appeals.
Affirmed.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, Walter W. Turton, Prosecuting Attorney, and Donald P. Neumann and Gerald W. Fdson, Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys, for the people.
Anthony M. Bonadio, for defendant on appeal.
Before: McGregor, P. J., and Bronson and Mahinske, JJ.
Circuit judge, sitting on the Court of Appeals by assignment.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Defendant pled guilty to a charge of forgery, CL 1948, § 750.248 (Stat Ann 1962 Rev § 28.445), and was sentenced to serve 5 to 14 years in prison. He appeals.
After having pled guilty and prior to sentencing, the defendant moved to withdraw his plea of guilty, asserting that his attorney had induced him to plead guilty, having said that his case was "hopeless." Defendant now assigns as error the trial court's refusal to allow him to withdraw his plea.
Defendant makes the unsupported allegation that his attorney's statement prompted his plea; furthermore, there is no corroboration that such statement was ever made and the record belies his allegations. This is not sufficient to invalidate an otherwise exemplary criminal procedure. See People v. Mayfield (1969), 16 Mich App 680, 681. The rule is well established that there is no absolute right on the part of the accused to ivithdraw a plea of guilty. People v. Zaleski (1965), 375 Mich 71; People v. Whitmer (1969), 16 Mich App 703. Withdrawal rests within the sound discretion of the court and is not reversed unless there is an abuse. See People v. Pulliam (1968), 10 Mich App 481. Furthermore, defendant herein makes no assertion of innocence, nor that there was a miscarriage of justice. People v. Dunn (1968), 380 Mich 693; People v. Winegar (1968), 380 Mich 719.
Conviction affirmed.