Legal Opinion
People v. McFarlin
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided June 28, 1973No. 7 April Term 1973, Docket No. 54,201PublishedCited by 167 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLevin, J.
In these cases, consolidated on appeal, the defendants were convicted of felonies and sentenced to serve terms in prison. In the leading McFarlin case (People v McFarlin, 41 Mich App 116 [1972]) a panel of the Court of Appeals, differing with an earlier panel’s decision in People v Coleman, 19 Mich App 250 (1969), held that a judge may not consider an adult offender’s juvenile offense record as a factor in imposing sentence upon him, and remanded McFarlin for resentencing. The other consolidated cases concern the same issue.
We are of the opinion that the Coleman decision was correct and,…
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