Court Opinion

ID: 9553175
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 19:24:36.899972+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:30:08.508622
License: Public Domain

BRAND, J.,
specially concurring.
I concur in the reversal of this case. The matter set forth in the affidavit which was submitted in support of the motion for permission to withdraw the plea of guilty, and certain evidence taken at the trial on the merits, demonstrate that the court did not err in permitting the withdrawal of the plea of guilty and did err in receiving it in evidence. If the prosecution offered a nonjudicial confession and its admissibility was submitted as a preliminary question to a trial court upon a showing similar to that made in this case, a ruling excluding the confession from evidence *18would be upheld as being within the sound judicial discretion. The decision of the court permitting withdrawal of the plea of guilty after considering the evidence, presented a similar question and amounted, in my opinion, to a sound exercise of discretion and to a finding that the plea of guilty which would be admissible, if at all, only as a confession, was inadmissible as such. The trial court should have excluded from the jury the evidence of the plea of guilty.
I think it is unnecessary to go further in this case and would leave for future decisions the question as to whether in all cases and under all circumstances evidence of a plea of guilty made and withdrawn should or should not be excluded.