Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-08-23 23:33:04.066811+00
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J. H. Gillis,
J. On May 7, 1980, in the Recorder’s Court for the City of Detroit defendant pled guilty to the charges of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than the crime of murder and carrying a firearm during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, MCL 750.84, 750.227b; MSA 28.279, 28.424(2). This plea was taken before the Honorable Samuel C. Gardner.
*25Prior to the guilty plea in the above case, the defendant, on May 15, 1979, had pled guilty before the Honorable Samuel Olsen to the charge of attempted breaking and entering an occupied building with intent to commit larceny therein, MCL 750.110; MSA 28.305. On May 30, 1979, defendant was placed on probation for two years by Judge Olsen.
At the May 7, 1980, plea before Judge Gardner, a discussion ensued advising defendant that a guilty plea would constitute a violation of defendant’s probationary sentence imposed by Judge Olsen. Therefore, a plea bargain was proffered defendant whereby his sentence for the probation violation would run concurrently with the sentence defendant would receive for the latest felony convictions.
On May 15, 1980, the date set for sentence, defendant waived the proffered revocation hearing and pled guilty to probation violation in front of Judge Gardner, and the court imposed the previously agreed upon sentence. The defendant did not voice any objection to Judge Gardner’s conducting the probation violation proceeding.
On appeal, defendant contends that his plea of guilty to the probation violation must be set aside because the original trial judge, the Honorable Samuel Olsen, did not conduct the proceedings. Defendant argues that both statute and case law mandate that probation violation matters must be conducted by the original judge who imposed the sentence, absent specific exceptions not present in the instant case. We agree.
As stated in People v McDonald, 97 Mich App 425, 431-432; 296 NW2d 53 (1980), vacated on other grounds 411 Mich 870 (1981):
"A trial judge who has placed a man on probation *26has shown a confidence in the probationer’s ability to obey the law. He will receive periodic reports from the probation agent and may have a personal concern for the success of the probation. It is appropriate, if revocation must be considered, that the consideration be by the judge who is most acquainted with the matter.”
In People v Collins, 25 Mich App 609; 181 NW2d 601 (1970), a panel of this Court reached a different result where the original sentencing judge who first placed the defendant on probation was a visiting judge and was no longer sitting by assignment in the Recorder’s Court. To the extent that any language contained in the Collins case, supra, conflicts with this decision, the writer confesses error.
Inasmuch as the guilty plea before Judge Gardner was intertwined in a plea bargain involving a probation revocation, we set. aside defendant’s guilty plea and remand this case to the Recorder’s Court. The charges of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than the crime of murder and possession of a firearm are remanded back to Judge Gardner for appropriate proceedings. If there is a violation of probation proceeding arising therefrom, such proceeding must be conducted by Judge Samuel Olsen.
We retain no further jurisdiction.
Bashara, P.J., concurred.