PEOPLE v. DITTO

Docket No. 52680.

110 Mich. App. 654 (1981)

313 N.W.2d 177

PEOPLE v. DITTO.

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided October 21, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Edward Reilly Wilson, Principal Attorney, Appeals, and Janice M. Joyce, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Chari Grove, Assistant State Appellate Defender, for defendant on appeal.

Before: BASHARA, P.J., and J.H. GILLIS and V.J. BRENNAN, JJ.


BASHARA, P.J.

Defendant appeals his plea-based conviction of larceny in a building, MCL 750.360; MSA 28.592.

Initially, defendant contends that the prosecutor abused his discretion by charging him under the statute prohibiting larceny in a building, a felony, rather than for simple larceny, MCL 750.356; MSA 28.588, which is a misdemeanor.

The argument lacks merit. Michigan's appellate courts have regularly held that where an alleged defendant could...

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