People v. Green

Respectfully, I dissent.

The applicable provisions of the guilty plea court rule, GCR 1963, 785.7(l)(b), (d), require that a defendant be told of the maximum and mandatory minimum sentence that he may receive as a result of his plea. The giving of this information is mandatory and the failure to give it requires that the plea-based conviction be set aside. People v Jones, 410 Mich 407; 301 NW2d 822 (1981).

The requirement that a defendant be informed of the effect of Proposal B on his sentence follows from the opinion of this Court in People v Mitchell, 102 Mich App 554, 557; 302 NW2d 230…