People v. Johnson

In these separate criminal cases, which we consolidated for appeal, both defendants were charged with and convicted of multiple counts of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree arising from single acts of sexual penetration.

The threshold question is one of statutory interpretation: When the Legislature enacted the first-degree criminal sexual conduct statute, MCL 750.520b; MSA 28.788(2), did it intend that a single sexual penetration, accompanied by more than one of the statute’s enumerated special circumstances, result in multiple criminal charges for purposes of trial, conviction, and…