Court Opinion

ID: 8483309
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Date Created: 2022-11-11 06:03:58.475942+00
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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PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN,                                       UNPUBLISHED
                                                                       November 10, 2022
               Plaintiff-Appellant,

v                                                                      No. 358389
                                                                       Calhoun Circuit Court
KEVIN THEODORE WILSON,                                                 LC No. 2020-001489-FH

               Defendant-Appellee.

Before: SAWYER, P.J., and MARKEY and SWARTZLE, JJ.

SWARTZLE, J. (concurring in part, dissenting in part).

        While I agree that this matter should be returned to the trial court, I would vacate the trial
court’s dismissal of charges rather than outright reverse. It appears that there was some confusion
in the record as to the precedential effect of People v Borowka, unpublished per curiam opinion of
the Court of Appeals, issued September 17, 2019 (Docket No. 346398), a case upon which I sat.
The analysis in Borowka clearly supported the trial court’s dismissal here, although neither the
analysis nor the holding dictated that dismissal. Accordingly, I would remand the matter for the
sole purpose of permitting the trial court to reconsider its dismissal in light of the fact that Borowka
was an unpublished decision.

                                                                /s/ Brock A. Swartzle

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