People of Michigan v. Ronald Scott

Summary

The Court held that a timely application for leave to appeal from an interlocutory remand order automatically stayed proceedings concerning the matters involved in the appeal, and the trial court abused its discretion by conducting a trial that admitted the disputed other-acts evidence. It nevertheless held that violating the stay was a procedural error, not a loss of subject-matter jurisdiction, because interlocutory appeals do not divest a trial court of general jurisdiction before entry of a final order. The Court reversed and remanded for the Court of Appeals to evaluate the evidence under the applicable evidentiary and harmless-error standards.