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PEOPLE v. MERKERSON

Docket No. 80968.

147 Mich. App. 207 (1985)

382 N.W.2d 750

PEOPLE v. MERKERSON

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided November 18, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, L. Brooks Patterson, Prosecuting Attorney, Robert C. Williams, Chief Appellate Counsel, and Graham K. Crabtree, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Arthur Lee Morman, for defendant on appeal.

Before: M.J. KELLY, P.J., and MacKENZIE and N.J. KAUFMAN, JJ.

M.J. KELLY, P.J.

We granted defendant's application for leave to pursue this interlocutory appeal so that we could determine whether the Detroit House of Correction (DeHoCo) constitutes "a penal institution of this state" for the purposes of Michigan's 180-day rule. MCL 780.131; MSA 28.969(1).1 We hold that application of the 180-day rule to inmates confined at DeHoCo will depend on the circumstances of their assignment to that facility...

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