People v. Cummings

The primary issue in this guilty-plea appeal is whether a plea may be set aside before sentencing on the prosecutor’s motion on the basis that defense counsel concealed material facts during plea bargaining.

Defendant originally pled guilty to attempted breaking and entering an occupied dwelling with intent to commit larceny on June 28, 1976, pursuant to a plea bargain.

On July 6, 1976, before sentencing, the prosecutor moved to set aside this plea on two bases: (1) in his plea, defendant stated that he did not know it was an occupied dwelling, and (2) the prosecutor was not made aware of…