PEOPLE v. BRUCE

Docket Nos. 156827 and 156828 Calendar No. 1.

939 N.W.2d 188 (2019)

504 Mich. 555

PEOPLE of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Terence Mitchell BRUCE, Defendant-Appellee. People of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Stanley Lyle Nicholson, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 25, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dana Nessel , Attorney General, Fadwa A. Hammoud , Solicitor General, Laura Moody , Chief Legal Counsel, and Christopher M. Allen , Assistant Attorney General, for the people.

Law Office of Rosemary Gordon Pánuco (by Rosemary Gordon Pánuco ) for Terence M. Bruce and Stanley L. Nicholson.

BEFORE THE ENTIRE BENCH.


OPINION

In these consolidated cases we consider whether defendants, who were federal border patrol agents operating as part of a joint task force enforcing Michigan law, are public officers for purposes of the common-law offense of misconduct in office. The crux of this question is how to categorize their offices—solely...

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