Court Opinion

ID: 9730782
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 15:23:53.976077+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:09.251474
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*537Coleman, C.J.
(dissenting). It is beyond the concept of "lenity” to hold that two felonies committed separately, each with the use of a gun, should be treated as one under the "felony-firearm act” because the plea bargaining for both took place at one hearing. The judge made clear the requirements of the act for two gun counts and the defendant accepted them. If the judge had held separate plea hearings for each offense, there would be no question that the felony-firearm statute would have applied consecutively. The armed robbery counts would have run concurrently. The cliché "form over substance” assumes demonstrative meaning.
We would affirm.
Fitzgerald, J., concurred with Coleman, C.J.