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PEOPLE v. DeJONGE

Docket Nos. 106149, 109010.

179 Mich. App. 225 (1989)

449 N.W.2d 899

PEOPLE v. DeJONGE PEOPLE v. BENNETT

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided August 8, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, Wesley J. Nykamp, Prosecuting Attorney, and Mark A. Feyen, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, in Docket No. 106149, and John D. O'Hair, Prosecuting Attorney, Timothy A. Baughman, Chief of the Criminal Division, Research, Training and Appeals, and Olga Agnello, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, in Docket No. 109010, for the people.

David A. Kallman, and Michael P. Farris and Christopher J. Klicka, of the Home School Legal Defense Ass'n, for defendants DeJonge.

Eisenberg & Mazor, P.C. (by Leonard M. Mazor), for defendants Bennett.

Before: DOCTOROFF, P.J., and MAHER and MARILYN KELLY, JJ.

MARILYN KELLY, J.

I

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

The defendants in these cases are parents who were found guilty of violating the state compulsory school attendance law. MCL 380.1561; MSA 15.41561, MCL 380.1599; MSA 15.41599. The Bennetts and the DeJonges kept their children home for school, the mothers serving as teachers. Defendants claimed their home schools made them exempt from the law under § 1561(3...

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