Case Name: PEOPLE v. WHITTED
Court: Michigan Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1992-12-04
Citations: 199 Mich. App. 459
Docket Number: Docket No. 142655
Parties: PEOPLE v WHITTED
Judges: Before: R.J. Danhof, P.J., and J. H. Gillis and W. R. Beasley, JJ.
Reporter: Michigan appeals reports; cases decided in the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Volume: 199
Pages: 459–460

Head Matter:
PEOPLE v WHITTED
Docket No. 142655.
Submitted December 17, 1991, at Detroit.
Decided December 4, 1992;
approved for publication April 22, 1993, at 9:20 a.m.
Jonathan Whitted pleaded guilty in the Detroit Recorder’s Court, John Patrick O’Brien, J., of delivery of less than fifty grams of cocaine. The court, believing that it did not have the discretion to impose a sentence of lifetime probation with electronic tethering for the first six months as a condition of probation, sentenced the defendant to three to fifteen years’ imprisonment. The defendant appealed.
The Court of Appeals held:
MCL 771.3(3); MSA 28.1133(3) prohibits confinement in a county jail as a condition of lifetime probation. Electronic tethering is not confinement in jail and may be imposed as a condition of lifetime probation.
Remanded for resentencing.
Sentences — Lifetime Probation — Electronic Tethering.
Electronic tethering may be imposed as a condition of lifetime probation (MCL 771.3[3]; MSA 28.1133[3]).
References
Am Jur 2d, Criminal Law § 570.
See ALR Index under Parole, Probation, and Pardon.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, John D. O’Hair, Prosecuting Attorney, Timothy A. Baughman, Chief of Research, Training, and Appeals, and Jeffrey Caminsky, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
State Appellate Defender (by Jennifer A. Pilette), for the defendant on appeal._
Before: R.J. Danhof, P.J., and J. H. Gillis and W. R. Beasley, JJ.
Former Court of Appeals judges, sitting on the Court of Appeals by assignment pursuant to Administrative Order No. 1991-9.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Defendant pleaded guilty of delivery of less than fifty grams of cocaine, MCL 333.7401(2)(a)(iv); MSA 14.15(7401)(2)(a) (iv), and was sentenced to three to fifteen years' imprisonment. He appeals as of right. We remand for resentencing. This case has been decided without oral argument pursuant to MCR 7.214(E)(1)(b).
Electronic tethering is not, by definition, imprisonment in the county jail, and, therefore, not a prohibited condition under MCL 771.3(3); MSA 28.1133(3). It may properly be imposed as a condition of lifetime probation. People v Dyson, 185 Mich App 784, 787-788; 462 NW2d 845 (1990). Because the trial court erroneously believed that it did not have the discretion to impose a sentence of lifetime probation with the first six months on the electronic tether, we remand for resentending. People v Whalen, 412 Mich 166, 170; 312 NW2d 638 (1981); People v Mauch, 23 Mich App 723, 730; 179 NW2d 184 (1970).
Remanded for resentencing. We do not retain jurisdiction._