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PEOPLE v. HUTCHINSON

Docket No. 85382.

155 Mich. App. 84 (1986)

399 N.W.2d 448

PEOPLE v. HUTCHINSON

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided October 6, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, John D. Foresman, Prosecuting Attorney, and Tonatzin M. Alfero Garcia, Assistant Attorney General, for the people.

Lewis & Schuknecht, P.C. (by Michael D. Lewis), for defendant on appeal.

Before: R.B. BURNS, P.J., and T.M. BURNS and D.F. WALSH, JJ.

R.B. BURNS, P.J.

Defendant appeals following his January 17, 1985, plea-based conviction for second-degree murder. MCL 750.317; MSA 28.549. He was sentenced to serve from forty to sixty years. He now appeals and we affirm.

Defendant first requests us to determine whether he will be eligible for parole after serving ten calendar years of his sentence. MCL 791.234(4); MSA 28.2304(4), known as the "lifer law," provides in pertinent part as follows:

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