Court Opinion

ID: 9720590
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 08:36:59.041895+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:19.739486
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Bronson, J.
(dissenting). For reasons stated in my dissenting opinion in People v. Martin (1970), 29 Mich App 295, 1 would set aside defendant’s plea and remand the case for new trial.
I cannot accept the position taken in the majority opinion in the instant case that People v. Taylor (1970), 383 Mich 338, requires affirmance. The majority quotes from Justice T. E. Brennan’s opinion in Taylor. Justice Brennan’s opinion was signed by only one other justice. Two justices concurred in affirming the acceptance of Taylor’s plea only because they held Boykin v. Alabama (1969), 395 US 238 (89 S Ct 1709, 23 L Ed 2d 274), not to be retroactive. Three justices dissented in Taylor. As such, I do not consider the quoted portion of the Taylor opinion to be dispositive of the issue raised in the instant case.