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PEOPLE v. VASQUEZ

Docket No. 116660, Calendar No. 7.

631 N.W.2d 711 (2001)

465 Mich. 83

PEOPLE of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mark John VASQUEZ, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 27, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennifer M. Granholm, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, Larry J. Burdick, Prosecuting Attorney, and Mark H. Duthie, Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Mt. Pleasant, for the people.

Joseph T. Barberi, Mt. Pleasant, for the defendant.

Jeffrey L. Sauter, President, and Terrence E. Dean, Senior Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Muskegon, for amicus curiae Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan.

Opinion

MARKMAN, J.

We granted leave to consider whether defendant's alleged conduct of lying to a police officer about his name and age, constituted an "obstruction" within the meaning of Michigan's "resisting and obstructing" statute. MCL 750.479. Michigan's "resisting and obstructing" statute does not proscribe any manner of interference with a police officer, and it also does not proscribe

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