Court Opinion

ID: 9717579
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 07:06:19.238272+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:54.084177
License: Public Domain

Hood, J.
(concurring). In People v Price, 126 Mich App 647; 337 NW2d 614 (1983), lv den 417 Mich 1100.40 (1983), I was a member of a panel which decided that receiving and concealing stolen property was not a cognate lesser included offense of breaking and entering with intent to commit larceny therein. I now find that I erred in that conclusion by relying upon People v Matuja, 77 Mich App 291, 295; 258 NW2d 79 (1977). Although the Supreme Court did not indicate its reasoning, it has explicitly stated that receiving and concealing stolen property may be a cognate lesser included offense of breaking and entering. People v *149Kamin, 405 Mich 482, 496; 275 NW2d 777 (1979). Therefore, in those cases in which the facts would support a lesser included offense of receiving and concealing stolen property although the defendant was charged with breaking and entering, a trial court does not err by amending the information to add the receiving and concealing count.