Case ID: mich-app_52/html/0119-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PEOPLE v BEHM (ON REMAND) PEOPLE v PATTERSON (ON REMAND) PEOPLE v WHITEHEAD (ON REMAND)
    Kidnapping—Appeal and Error—Asportation—Instructions to Jury.
    A defendant’s conviction of kidnapping must be reversed where the trial court failed to instruct the jury on asportation as mandated by the Michigan Supreme Court.
    Reference for Points in Headnote
    53 Am Jur, Trial § 554.
    Appeal from St. Clair, Halford I. Streeter, J.
    Submitted Division 2 February 13, 1973, at Lansing.
    (Docket Nos. 13292, 13294, 13331.)
    Decided March 7, 1974.
    Michael K. Behm, Lawrence P. Patterson, and Michael J. Whitehead were convicted of kidnapping. Behm was also convicted of armed robbery. Defendants appealed. Affirmed, 45 Mich App 614 (1973). Remanded by the Supreme Court for reconsideration of kidnapping conviction, 391 Mich 752.
    Reversed.
    
      Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, Walter W. Turton, Prosecuting Attorney, Peter E. Deegan, Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, and Thomas R. Lewis, Director, Prosecuting Attorneys Appellate Service.
    
      Stuart M. Israel, Assistant State Appellate Defender, for defendants.
    
      Before: McGregor, P. J., and Quinn and Peterson, JJ.
    
      
       Circuit judge, sitting on the Court of Appeals by assignment.
    
   Per Curiam.

Pursuant to an order of the Supreme Court dated December 27, 1973, in People v Whitehead, Behm, Patterson, No’s. 54942-3-4 (391 Mich 752), we have reviewed our decision in these cases as it appears, in 45 Mich App 614; 207 NW2d 200 (1973), in the light of People v Adams, 389 Mich 222; 205 NW2d 415 (1973).

This review establishes that the trial court failed to instruct the jury on asportation as mandated by Adams, supra. This failure compels reversal of defendants’ convictions for kidnapping.

Reversed.