Court Opinion

ID: 9728472
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 14:08:58.010604+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:48.354787
License: Public Domain

M. J. Kelly, P.J.
(concurring). I concur in the result reached by Judge Bronson but do not approve the rationale. I would follow the rationale in People v Powell, 90 Mich App 273; 282 NW2d 803 (1979), and People v Walter Johnson, 85 Mich App 654; 272 NW2d 605 (1978). I would have much preferred to affirm this defendant’s convictions without prejudice to granting the defendant the option of having his pleas set aside if he preferred. The reason I would have preferred that alternative is because the record is clear that this was a negotiated sentence bargain in which the trial court agreed to sentence the defendant to four to ten years on three armed robbery charges on each of which he was exposed to a life maximum. I could not persuade either of my learned colleagues to agree to this alternative.
I concur only in the result.