People v. Haynes

Defendant pleaded no contest to a charge of committing the “abominable and detestable crime against nature” with a sheep. MCL 750.158. The trial court sentenced defendant as a fourth-offense habitual offender, MCL 769.12, to 30 to 240 months’ imprisonment. In addition, the trial court found that defendant’s actions indicated sexual perversion, so the court ordered defendant to register under the Sex Offenders Registration Act (SORA), MCL 28.721 et seq. This Court initially denied defendant’s delayed application for leave to appeal, 1 but our Supreme Court, in lieu of granting leave to appeal,…