People v. Phebus

This is a successive prosecution case. These cases are difficult to analyze, but the prosecution urged at argument that the defendant was somehow blameworthy for rushing to enter his misdemeanor guilty plea on the day following the criminal episode. I do not perceive that it would make a great deal of difference if defendant entered his plea on the next day or the next week or month. This is not analogous to a defendant’s waiving his right to a single trial *636as required in People v White, 390 Mich 245; 212 NW2d 222 (1973), when the multiple charges are pending against him át the time of his…