A guilty plea entered during trial after weighing prospects of conviction in the face of overwhelming evidence, including damaging telephone recordings and eyewitness testimony, is voluntary and does not constitute a miscarriage of justice merely because the accused had additional motivations for pleading guilty such as shielding family members from distressing evidence. Complaints about matters that could have been ventilated at trial had the accused maintained a not guilty plea do not support vacating the plea.
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