The court held that the evidence was sufficient to support the armed-robbery and felony-murder convictions. It extended the plain-error framework to unpreserved claims of constitutional error, found the aiding-and-abetting instruction plainly erroneous, but concluded that Carines had not shown prejudice and that the…
Michigan Supreme Court, 1999
Published opinions from 1999. The case name opens the case page.
1999 opinions
The court held that Michigan's implied-consent statute is triggered only when a motorist has been arrested, so it did not govern the blood sample obtained from defendant before her arrest.
The Michigan Supreme Court held that counsel’s failure to discover the building’s true ownership did not establish ineffective assistance because the defendant presented no evidence that anyone had consented to his entry or that the information would have changed the defense or result.