LEJEUNE v. McLAUGHLIN

In the Supreme Court of Georgia Decided: November 24, 2014 S14A1155. LEJEUNE v. McLAUGHLIN. BLACKWELL, Justice. In November 2005, Michael Lejeune pleaded guilty to murder, was convicted upon his plea, and was sentenced to imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole. Years later, Lejeune filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that his plea was invalid because, he said, he never was advised that, if he instead had insisted upon a trial, he could not have been compelled at that trial to testify against himself. Following an evidentiary hearing, the habeas court denied…