MAKOWSKI v. GOVERNOR

Docket No. 307402.

829 N.W.2d 291 (2012)

299 Mich. App. 166

MAKOWSKI v. GOVERNOR.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided December 27, 2012, at 9:10 a.m.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul D. Reingold and Charles L. Levin , Detroit, for Matthew Makowski.

Bill Schuette , Attorney General, John J. Bursch , Solicitor General, Richard A. Bandstra , Chief Legal Counsel, and A. Peter Govorchin , Assistant Attorney General, for the Governor and the Secretary of State.

Before: O'CONNELL, P.J., and CAVANAGH and DONOFRIO, JJ.


CAVANAGH, J.

Plaintiff appeals by right the summary dismissal of his request for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief on his claim that former Governor Jennifer Granholm1 exceeded her constitutional authority when she revoked or rescinded her purported commutation of his nonparolable life sentence. We affirm.

On February 2, 1989, plaintiff was sentenced by the Wayne Circuit Court to mandatory life in prison without the possibility...

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