People v. Cortez

Defendant, Burton David Cortez, appeals as of right his convictions on two counts of being a prisoner in possession of a weapon, MCL 800.283(4), entered after a jury trial. The trial court sentenced defendant as a second-offense habitual offender, MCL 769.10, to concurrent terms of 24 to 90 months in prison.

At the time of the incident in question defendant was an inmate at the Carson City Correctional Facility. On *483July 21, 2009, Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) officers discovered two weapons in defendant’s cell during a search of a number of inmates’ cells. Before trial, defendant…