Case Name: PEOPLE v. BEATY
Court: Michigan Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1976-11-08
Citations: 72 Mich. App. 159
Docket Number: Docket No. 23543
Parties: PEOPLE v BEATY
Judges: Before: R. B. Burns, P. J., and D. E. Holbrook and T. M. Burns, JJ.
Reporter: Michigan appeals reports; cases decided in the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Volume: 72
Pages: 159–161

Head Matter:
PEOPLE v BEATY
Opinion of the Court
1. Criminal Law — Plea of Guilty — Advice of Rights — Maximum Sentence — Advice at Arraignment — Court Rules.
A defendant was properly advised of the maximum sentence for the offense to which he pled guilty, as required by court rule, where the trial judge advised him of the maximum penalty for the offense at his arraignment (GCR 1963, 785.7[1] [b]).
Dissent by T. M. Burns, J.
2. Criminal Law — Plea of Guilty — Advice of Rights — Maximum Sentence — Advice at Arraignment — Court Rules.
Failure of a trial judge at a guilty-plea hearing to inform the defendant of the maximum sentence for the offense to which the plea is offered is reversible error, whether or not the defendant was advised of the maximum sentence at his arraignment four months earlier (GCR 1963, 785.7[1][bj).
Appeal from Calhoun, Ronald M. Ryan, J.
Submitted October 5, 1976, at Grand Rapids.
(Docket No. 23543.)
Decided November 8, 1976.
Leave to appeal applied for.
Lawrence Beaty was convicted, on his plea of guilty, of delivery of cocaine. Defendant appeals by leave granted.
Affirmed.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, John J. Rae, Prose cuting Attorney, and Roger L. Caswell, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
References for Points in Headnotes
21 Am Jur 2d, Criminal Law §§ 487, 491.
Court’s duty to advise or admonish accused as to consequences of plea of guilty, or to determine that he is advised thereof. 97 ALR2d 549.
Elizabeth Schwartz, Assistant State Appellate Defender, for defendant.
Before: R. B. Burns, P. J., and D. E. Holbrook and T. M. Burns, JJ.

Opinion:
R. B. Burns, P. J.
Defendant pled guilty to delivery of cocaine. MCLA 335.341(l)(b); MSA 18.1070(41)(l)(b). On appeal he claims the trial court erred by not informing him of the maximum sentence for the offense.
GCR 1963, 785.7[1] [b] requires the trial judge to advise the defendant of, "(b) the maximum sentence and the mandatory minimum sentence, if any, for the offense to which the plea is offered".
Defendant was originally arraigned in circuit court on three counts. At that time the trial judge advised him of the maximum penalty for each of the three counts.
Defendant was advised of the maximum penalty for the offense to which his plea was offered.
Affirmed.
D. E. Holbrook, J., concurred.