Court Opinion

ID: 9725576
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 11:54:15.916552+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:16.809651
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Bashara, P.J.
Defendant appeals his plea-based conviction of larceny in a building, MCL 750.360; MSA 28.592.
Initially, defendant contends that the prosecutor abused his discretion by charging him under the statute prohibiting larceny in a building, a felony, rather than for simple larceny, MCL 750.356; MSA 28.588, which is a misdemeanor.
The argument lacks merit. Michigan’s appellate courts have regularly held that where an alleged defendant could have been charged under two different statutes for the same offense, it is not an abuse of discretion to charge the violation under the more harsh of the two statutes. Genesee Prosecutor v Genesee Circuit Judge, 391 Mich 115; 215 NW2d 145 (1974), Genesee Prosecutor v Genesee Circuit Judge, 386 Mich 672; 194 NW2d 693 (1972), People v Swearington, 84 Mich App 372; 269 NW2d 467 (1978).
Defendant’s argument is more properly one for *657consideration by the Legislature and not this Court.
Defendant also alleges that the trial court did not comply with GCR 1963, 785.7(l)(g)(iii), which requires that the trial court advise a defendant at the plea proceeding that by pleading guilty he waives the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. In Guilty Plea Cases, 395 Mich 96, 122; 235 NW2d 132 (1975), the Court held that the court rule has been satisfied where the record reveals that the defendant knew what a trial is and that by pleading guilty he was knowingly and voluntarily giving up the rights incident to trial. Specific wording is not required. Id., 122-124. Review of this record reveals that subrule 7(l)(g)(iii) was satisfied where the court informed the defendant that "the people would have to establish your guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and if they failed to do that, you would be entitled to acquittal or being found not guilty”.
Defendant’s remaining allegation of error is also without merit. Since defendant has not alleged that he was subjected to confinement for violation of probation or parole because of his guilty plea, no error requiring reversal occurred due to the trial court’s failure to advise the defendant of that eventuality under GCR 1963, 785.7(l)(e). People v Hunt, 72 Mich App 168; 249 NW2d 341 (1977).
Affirmed.
J. H. Gillis, J., concurred.