People v. Jenkins

The defendants, Michael Jenkins, Danny Joiner, and Wendell Sherrer, were charged with carrying a concealed weapon, MCL 750.227; MSA 28.424. Two pistols were found in a car occupied by the defendants. Before trial, the defendants moved to suppress the pistols and a pretrial hearing was held. The trial judge held that the search of the car occupied by the defendants was illegal and that the pistols had to be suppressed as the fruit of the illegal search. The charges against the defendants were dismissed. The people appeal as a matter of right.

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