People v. Peters

The issues are whether the trial court had jurisdiction to accept defendant’s1 plea of guilty to second-degree murder and, if so, whether defendant’s plea forecloses his post-conviction attack based on what he alleges was an illegally obtained confession. We conclude that Recorder’s Court did have jurisdiction of this matter and that defendant may not successfully attack his plea of *363guilty on the basis that it was involuntarily induced by his confession.

Facts

Janice Ott was stabbed to death in the hallway of her Detroit apartment building on December 22, 1971. Underneath her body, the police…