Court Opinion

ID: 9850271
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:54:21.013467+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:20:34.146369
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Bashara, P.J.,
(dissenting). I respectfully dissent. The majority rationalizes its decision by analogizing a revocation of placement under the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act to a probation revocation hearing. I cannot agree.
The Holmes Youthful Trainee Act is a strict creation of the Legislature. It provides that the trial judge may, with the consent of a youth between the ages of 17 and 20, assign that person to the status of youthful offender.1 It further provides that the court may terminate the status at any time. The effect of such termination is simply to reinstate the criminal charges, with no information divulged pursuant to the Youthful Trainee Act to be considered as evidence.2 In other words, *56the defendant is placed in the same position as he was prior to trial.
A person deemed guilty of violating probation has already been found guilty of a principal crime. Probation violation assures a penalty. To the contrary, one whose youthful trainee status is revoked is clothed with every presumption of innocence.
There is nothing in the statute which appears to violate due process, nor does the majority question its constitutionality. The revocation of status as a youthful trainee is purely procedural and, as such, is clearly not jurisdictional. In the case at bar, the defendant pled guilty to the principal charge. People v Alvin Johnson, 396 Mich 424; 240 NW2d 729 (1976), mandates that a plea of guilty waives all nonjurisdictional defects.
People v Roberson, 22 Mich App 664; 177 NW2d 712 (1970), cited by the majority, can be distinguished. There, the defendant pled guilty and was then assigned under the Youthful Trainee Act. The revocation left defendant as having been found guilty, a fact not present in the instant case. A review of the other cases cited by the majority convinces me that they are not applicable to the matter at hand.
I would affirm defendant’s conviction.

 MCL 762.11; MSA 28.853(11).