PEOPLE v. MORRIS

Docket Nos. 96606, 97136, 98081, (Calendar Nos. 2-4).

450 Mich. 316 (1995)

PEOPLE v. MORRIS PEOPLE v. HADLEY PEOPLE v. MOREAU

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided August 22, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, Jeffrey L. Sauter, Prosecuting Attorney, and William M. Worden, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people in Morris and Hadley.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, Richard Thompson, Prosecuting Attorney, Joyce F. Todd, Chief, Appellate Division, and Janice A. Kabodian, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people in Moreau.

Deming & Maurer (by John H. Deming) for Morris.

State Appellate Defender (by Sheila N. Robertson) for Hadley.

Michael J. McCarthy for Moreau.

Amicus Curiae:

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, Donald Martin, President, John D. O'Hair, Prosecuting Attorney, and Timothy A. Baughman, Chief, Research, Training and Appeals, for the Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan.


BOYLE, J.

Defendants in the three cases before us have been convicted of multiple controlled substance offenses and sentenced to serve consecutive prison terms. Defendants challenge the consecutive nature of their sentences, arguing that their crimes do not fit within the relevant statutory provision mandating consecutive sentences. Consideration of this issue requires us to decide the scope of offenses included in the term "another felony" as used in the controlled...

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