PEOPLE v. HUTCHINSON

Docket No. 194643.

569 N.W.2d 858 (1997)

224 Mich. App. 603

PEOPLE of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Shawn Dojon HUTCHINSON, a/k/a Shawn Deon Hutchinson, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided July 22, 1997, at 9:00 a.m.

Released for Publication October 8, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, John D. O'Hair, Prosecuting Attorney, Timothy A. Baughman, Chief of Research, Training, and Appeals, and Thomas A. Chambers, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for People.

Glenn A. McCandliss, Detroit, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before MARK J. CAVANAGH, P.J., and DOCTOROFF and D.A. TEEPLE, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

The Wayne County Prosecutor appeals as of right from an action of the Wayne Circuit Court, purportedly "correcting" the verdict rendered at the conclusion of a bench trial so as to find defendant guilty only of attempted possession of more than 650 grams of cocaine, rather than actual possession. The substantive difference is that the penalty for possession of more than 650 grams of cocaine is a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment, M.C.L. § 333...

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