Court Opinion

ID: 9741913
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 21:04:03.341004+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:27.126853
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J. T. Kallman, J.
(concurring in part and dissenting in part). People v Coles, 417 Mich 523, 549; 339 NW2d 440 (1983), requires a sentencing court to articulate on the record its reasons for imposing the sentence given. I agree that the sentencing court failed to comply with this provision of Coles. I am not, however, persuaded that a remand for resentencing is required.
In this case, the defendant was sentenced as an habitual offender for assault with intent to rob while armed. The sentencing guidelines do not apply to habitual-offender sentences, People v Willhite, 155 Mich App 124, 126; 399 NW2d 57 (1986). Coles dictates that an appellate court "may afford relief to the defendant only if the appellate court finds that the trial court, in imposing the sentence, abused its discretion to the extent that it shocks the conscience of the appellate court.” Coles, supra, p 550.
A remand for resentencing in this case would serve no useful purpose and would be a waste of judicial resources. My conscience is not shocked by a sentence of from five to thirty years for an habitual offender conviction of assault with intent to rob while armed. Compare Willhite, supra, where the Court refused to remand for a Coles articulation on a three-to-twenty-five-year sentence for an habitual offender conviction of unarmed *598robbery. I would affirm the defendant’s conviction and sentence. The most the defendant is arguably entitled to is a remand for a Coles articulation, see People v Flowers, 422 Mich 880 (1985). A remand for resentencing is unwarranted.