Court Opinion

ID: 9733196
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 16:57:48.026826+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:39.328974
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Beasley, J.
(concurring). I concur in the result reached by the majority but write regarding defendant’s motion to disqualify the trial judge.
In 1974, this defendant attempted to escape from custody in the courtroom immediately following sentence1 by Judge Ollie B. Bivins of the Genesee County Circuit Court. At a subsequent hearing, defendant and two other witnesses testified that during this escape attempt defendant *324directed a racial obscenity at the trial judge. The trial judge subsequently denied hearing it.
I write to indicate that I would not permit a litigant to accomplish disqualification of a trial judge under this type of circumstance. However, in this case, the trial judge subsequently, at a 1978 disqualification hearing, chose to grant a motion to disqualify himself from hearing a nonjury retrial2 of this defendant.
Only because the trial judge involved chose to disqualify himself from hearing the retrial do I concur in this decision to disqualify him from a further probation revocation hearing, if there is one.

 Defendant was sentenced to three years probation, with the first year to be spent in the county jail.

 See, People v Tebedo, 81 Mich App 535; 265 NW2d 406 (1978).