Court Opinion

ID: 9686297
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 15:40:16.420305+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:17.448640
License: Public Domain

Cavanagh, J.
(concurring). I agree with the conclusion reached by the majority, but write separately to indicate that I do so because the phrase “term of years” in MCL 771.7(1); MSA 28.1137(1) plainly excludes the imposition of a life sentence. That being the case, I need look no further than the statute itself to find the trial court to have erred in imposing a life sentence, when the statute plainly requires the sentence imposed to be one of a “term of years.”
Kelly, J., concurred with Cavanagh, J.