Case Name: PEOPLE v. PURIFOY
Court: Michigan Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1972-05-25
Citations: 41 Mich. App. 1
Docket Number: Docket No. 11035
Parties: PEOPLE v PURIFOY
Judges: Before: McGregor, P. J., and Levin and TarGONSKI, JJ.
Reporter: Michigan appeals reports; cases decided in the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Volume: 41
Pages: 1–3

Head Matter:
PEOPLE v PURIFOY
Criminal Law — Plea of Guilty — Constitutional Rights — Advice of Rights.
Defendant’s plea of guilty was not knowingly and understandingly made where the trial judge failed to inform him specifically of his constitutional rights against self-incrimination and to confront his accusers where his plea of guilty was entered after the June 2, 1969, United States Supreme Court decision requiring a trial court to enumerate to a criminal defendant his constitutional rights prior to taking his guilty plea.
Reference for Points in Headnote
21 Am Jur 2d, Criminal Law §§ 357, 367.
Appeal from Kalamazoo, Wade Van Valkenburg, J.
Submitted Division 3 February 9, 1972, at Lansing.
(Docket No. 11035.)
Decided May 25, 1972.
Ronald J. Purifoy was convicted, on his plea of guilty, of larceny in a building. Defendant appeals.
Reversed and remanded for new trial.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, Donald A. Burge, Prosecuting Attorney, and Stewart D. Fenner, Jr., Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
Arthur J. Tarnow, State Appellate Defender, and Jane Burgess, Assistant State Appellate Defender, for defendant.
Before: McGregor, P. J., and Levin and TarGONSKI, JJ.
Former circuit judge, sitting on the Court of Appeals by assignment pursuant to Const 1963, art 6, § 23 as amended in 1968.

Opinion:
Targonski, J.
Defendant was charged with having, on April 20, 1969, stolen a colored television set from Hadley Hall of Western Michigan University. The formal charge was larceny in a building, MCLA 750.360; MSA 28.592. On September 21, 1969, while represented by counsel, defendant withdrew his original plea and pled guilty to the crime as charged. The detailed elements of the offense are not material to the disposition of the matters raised on appeal.
The sole issue before us is the question of whether the trial court committed error in not specifically enumerating to the defendant his constitutional right against self-incrimination and that his guilty plea constituted a waiver of his right to confront his accusers at trial in violation of the outline of the three Federal constitutional rights spelled out in Boykin v Alabama, 395 US 238; 89 S Ct 1709; 23 L Ed 2d 274 (1969). The issue of the necessity of spelling out to the defendant prior to taking his plea of all three constitutional rights cited in Boykin has been disposed of in this jurisdiction by the Supreme Court opinion in People v Jaworski, 387 Mich 21 (1972), in the affirmative. The only question is the applicability of Boy-kin in light of the language of Jaworski which specifically states that the principles enunciated are prospective, not retrospective. (Emphasis added.)
The plea in the instant case was taken September 21, 1970. The Boykin decision was issued June 2, 1969. Applying these same principles as to prospective v retrospective as enunciated in Jaworski we conclude that the defendant's constitutional rights were violated and that the plea under the circumstances was not understandingly made since he could not waive constitutional rights that were not specifically called to his attention knowingly and understandingly in the absence of such advice. People v Jaworski, supra.
Reversed and remanded for new trial in accordance with the principles set forth above.
All concurred.