Yates, J.
As a matter of tradition and practice, Michigan generally requires each criminal defendant to be sentenced by the judge who took the defendant's guilty plea. In this case, defendant, Varien Marcelle Bennett, pleaded guilty, as a third-offense habitual offender, MCL 769.11, to assault by strangulation, MCL 750.84, before Judge Sterling...
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