WAYNE COUNTY PROSECUTOR
v.
RECORDER'S COURT JUDGE
PEOPLE
v.
ALEXANDER)
PEOPLE
v.
BRINTLEY
Supreme Court of Michigan.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued January 10, 1979.
Decided June 25, 1979.
Appeal dismissed November 13, 1979.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Edward Reilly Wilson, Principal Attorney, Appeals, and Craig L. John and Timothy A. Baughman, Assistants Prosecuting Attorney, for plaintiff Wayne Prosecuting Attorney.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, and Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, for the people.
Alphonso R. Harper for defendant Recorder's Court Judge.
Kenneth M. Mogill for defendant Alexander.
Arthur H. Landau for defendant Brintley.
Amici Curiae:
Dennis Hertel.
David M. Lawson for Oakland County Criminal Defense Bar Association.
Lawrence J. Bunting, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for L. Brooks Patterson, Prosecuting Attorney, and Robert C. Williams, Chief Appellate Counsel.
Peter E. Deegan, President, and Joseph T. Barberi, Chairman, Amicus Curiae Committee, and Donald A. Johnston, Chairman, Prosecutors' Appellate Forum, for Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan.
Janet Tooley, Assistant Defender, and Peter Van Hoek, Research Attorney, for State Appellate Defender Office.
Supreme Court of Michigan.
Decided June 25, 1979. Rehearing denied post, p 1127.
Appeal dismissed by the Supreme Court of the United States November 13, 1979.
COLEMAN, C.J. (for reversal).
Leave to appeal was sua sponte granted in these cases1 to resolve a substantial conflict among our lower courts as to the constitutionality of Michigan's felony-firearm statute, MCL 750.227b; MSA 28.424(2), which states:
"A person who carries...
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