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PEOPLE v. WOODS

Docket No. 220760.

616 N.W.2d 211 (2000)

241 Mich. App. 545

PEOPLE of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert WOODS, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided June 27, 2000, at 9:00 a.m.

Released for Publication September 6, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jenifer M. Granholm, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Amy M. Ronayne, Assistant Attorney General, for the people.

Thick & Bush (by George C. Bush), Saginaw, for the defendant.

Before FITZGERALD, P.J., and SAAD and WHITBECK, JJ.

SAAD, J.

I. NATURE OF THE CASE

This interlocutory appeal raises an issue of first impression under Michigan law: May a sophisticated elected official escape criminal culpability for election fraud by claiming reliance on another elected official's representation that the charged conduct is legal? Defendant here involved himself in the distribution and collection of absentee ballots in an election where he and his brother were on the ballot—conduct...

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