Court Opinion

ID: 9657582
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 20:30:50.891133+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:46.594156
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Souris, J.
(dissenting). In this case defendant, although advised of his right to the assistance of retained counsel, was not advised, as then required by Court Rule No 35A (1945), see currently applicable OCR 1963, 785.3(1), that counsel Avould be appointed to assist him if he were too poor to retain his own counsel. Nor does this record disclose an express waiver of such assistance. See my opinions in People v. Parshay (1967), 379 Mich 7, 10, and People v. Hobdy (1968), 380 Mich 686, 692.
Furthermore, as in People v. Dunn (1968), 380 Mich 693, defendant was not advised of the consequences of his plea of guilty.
*719Finally, the circuit judge failed to examine the accused to determine that his plea was freely, understandingly, and voluntarily made, as required also by the cited rule.
For these multiple errors, without pausing to determine prejudice to defendant, I would vacate the sentence of conviction based on defendant’s plea of guilty and remand to the circuit court for trial.
T. M. KavaNagh, J., concurred with Soueis, J.