PEOPLE v. LANCE

Docket No. 51747.

111 Mich. App. 335 (1981)

314 N.W.2d 611

PEOPLE v. LANCE

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided November 16, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, Robert E. Weiss, Prosecuting Attorney, and Donald A. Kuebler, Chief, Appellate Division, for the people.

Parker & Buckley, for defendant.

Before: M.J. KELLY, P.J., and BRONSON and R.M. DANIELS, JJ.


BRONSON, J.

Defendant pled guilty in the Genesee County Circuit Court to kidnapping, MCL 750.349; MSA 28.581. He was sentenced to serve a term of 10 to 20 years' imprisonment.

Defendant's primary claim on appeal is that the plea must be deemed involuntary due to the excessive intervention of the trial court into the plea-bargaining process. Defendant argues that his plea was a result of an impermissible "promise-threat" made by the trial court.

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