An informed decision to plead guilty, particularly one made in the context of a negotiated memorandum of understanding securing significant advantages, forecloses any subsequent challenge to an interlocutory ruling on public interest immunity as a basis for setting aside the conviction. Information protected by public interest immunity that could only affect tactical forensic matters at trial, rather than the accused's knowledge of guilt, cannot ground a miscarriage of justice claim after a guilty plea.
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