Court Opinion

ID: 4510386
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2020-02-26 10:05:15.720604+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:13:32.537270
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                 revision until final publication in the Michigan Appeals Reports.

                           STATE OF MICHIGAN

                              COURT OF APPEALS

 PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN,                                      UNPUBLISHED
                                                                       February 25, 2020
                Plaintiff-Appellee,

 v                                                                     No. 343530
                                                                       Wayne Circuit Court
 TODD LOUIS ISON,                                                      LC No. 17-006585-01-FC

                Defendant-Appellant.

                                          ON REMAND

Before: LETICA, P.J., and M. J. KELLY and BOONSTRA, JJ.

LETICA, P.J., (concurring).

       Sans the paragraph discussing People v Shavers, 448 Mich. 389, 393; 531 NW2d 165
(1995), People v Compagnari, 233 Mich. App. 233, 236; 590 NW2d 302 (1998), and People v
Coulter (After Remand), 305 Mich. App. 453, 456; 517 NW2d 827 (1994), I agree that defendant’s
sentence is proportionate and does not run afoul of People v Beck, 504 Mich ___; ___ NW2d ___
(2019), cert pending. In response to the Beck dissent, which cited to Coulter (After Remand), the
majority stated:
       [T]o the extent the distinction the dissent wants to draw between sentencing a
       defendant more harshly based on the conclusion that the defendant committed an
       offense of which he was acquitted and sentencing a defendant “while considering
       conduct that supported the acquitted charge” is a meaningful one (and we are not
       convinced it is), this case plainly involves the former. [Beck, 504 Mich at ___, slip
       op at 21, n 24.]

As explained by the majority here, the sentencing court did not rely on acquitted conduct; instead,
it relied upon the victim’s real-time 911 call before imposing an out-of-guidelines sentence
because of defendant’s perjurious trial testimony and his patently false statement in the presentence
investigation report. People v Houston, 448 Mich. 312, 324; 532 NW2d 508 (1995) (“In imposing
sentence, a trial court may consider a defendant’s own perjury where there is a rational basis in the

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record for concluding that the defendant willfully made a flagrantly false statement on a material
issue.”).

                                                            /s/ Anica Letica

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