People of Michigan v. James Curtis Beck

Summary

The Court held that retrial on the 2016 charges violated double-jeopardy protections because the trial court declared a mistrial without conducting a sufficiently careful inquiry to establish manifest necessity. It vacated the 2016 convictions but denied relief on the 2017 convictions, concluding that the challenged other-acts evidence would generally have been admissible in a separate trial. The Court also held that imposing a mandatory minimum sentence on a CSC-I count whose charging document omitted the defendant-age allegation was plain error, but that the error did not warrant resentencing because it did not fundamentally affect the fairness of the trial.