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PEOPLE v. SHAVERS

Docket No. 99095.

448 Mich. 389 (1995)

531 N.W.2d 165

PEOPLE v. SHAVERS

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided April 12, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, Carl J. Marlinga, Prosecuting Attorney, Robert J. Berlin, Chief Appellate Lawyer, and Richard J. Goodman, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Carolyn A. Blanchard for the defendant.

PER CURIAM:

The defendant was charged with open murder, but convicted of voluntary manslaughter. The circuit court sentenced him to a term of ten to fifteen years in prison. The Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction, but set aside the sentence on the grounds that the circuit judge had improperly assumed the defendant to be guilty of murder, and that the circuit court had imposed a disproportionate sentence. We reverse...

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