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PEOPLE v. LANEY

Docket No. 239290.

669 N.W.2d 583 (2003)

258 Mich. App. 25

PEOPLE of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. General A. LANEY, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided August 7, 2003, at 9:05 a.m.

Released for Publication October 7, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. Cox, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, Michael E. Duggan, Prosecuting Attorney, and Timothy A. Baughman, Chief of Research, Training, and Appeals, for the people.

Chokwe Lumumba, Jackson, Mississippi, for the defendant.

Before: MURRAY, P.J., and NEFF and TALBOT, JJ.

MURRAY, P.J.

We granted leave in this case to determine whether it is a question of fact for a jury to decide whether a licensed gun dealer violated state law by verifying that he sold a pistol to a licensee, when the facts plausibly show that the licensee was acting as a so-called "straw man" for a person unauthorized to purchase the pistol from the dealer. Because the unique facts of this case present a jury submissible issue regarding who the pistol was actually...

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