Court Opinion

ID: 9848689
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:25:13.350542+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:18:37.082657
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D. T. Anderson, J.
(concurring). I would not set aside the plea nor remand for an evidentiary hearing. I concur with Judge Bashara, but would go further and estop the defendant, his attorney and the prosecutor from denying by affidavit or testimony the truth of the statements made in court for the express purpose of inducing the court to accept the plea. To permit this is to use the solemn requirements of the plea processes as handcrafted by the Supreme Court to perpetrate a fraud upon the court. It denigrates the judicial process. Further amplification of this writer’s reasons appear in the majority opinion in People v Serr, 73 Mich App 19; — NW2d — (1976).