People v. Brooks

Defendant, Carl Orlando Brooks, pled guilty to one count of armed robbery, MCL 750.529; MSA 28.797, and one count of felony-firearm, MCL 750.227b; MSA 28.424(2). During the trial court’s examination of defendant for the purpose of establishing a factual basis for the guilty pleas defendant said that during the commission of the above crimes his firearm was "broke”, and presumably inoperable.

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Defendant first claims that his pleas must be set aside because the trial court failed to advise him at his arraignment that any sentences imposed would have to be served consecutively to each other. Such…