Legal Opinion · Dissent

People v. Kowalski

Michigan Court of Appeals

Decided October 22, 1999No. Docket 206835Published

1DissentGribbs, J.

(dissenting).I respectfully dissent. I agree with the prosecutor that defendant’s sentence was disproportionately low.

Sexual touching of the buttocks, or clothing covering the buttocks, is specifically included in the offenses covered by the statute. See MCL 750.520c, 750.520a(c) and (k); MSA 28.788(3), 28.788(l)(c), and (k). The victim in this case was a seven-year-old child, dressed only in a two-piece bikini-style bathing *476suit and sandals. The defendant, an adult stranger, gave the unattended victim and her six-year-old playmate a ride on his shoulders across a creek to the woods in the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. People v. BensonMichigan Court of Appeals · 1993
  2. People v. ParrishMichigan Court of Appeals · 1996

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