PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

Docket No. 135271. Calendar No. 3.

769 N.W.2d 605 (2009)

483 Mich. 226

PEOPLE of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Carletus Lashawn WILLIAMS, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 9, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. Cox, Attorney General, B. Eric Restuccia, Solicitor General, David G. Gorcyca, Prosecuting Attorney, and Janice A. Kabodian, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

James Daniel Shanahan and Carletus Lashawn Williams, in propria persona, for the defendant.


Opinion

CORRIGAN, J.

In this criminal case, we consider the joinder and severance of charges against a single criminal defendant under our court rules. MCR 6.120(A) and (B) establish when a court may join offenses charged in two or more informations against a single defendant and when a court must sever offenses charged in a single information against a single defendant. This Court first adopted MCR 6.120 on October 1, 1989. Before adopting MCR 6.120, however...

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