Legal Opinion · Dissent

People v. Moore

Michigan Court of Appeals

Decided July 10, 1979No. Docket 78-4651Published

1DissentDanhof, C.J.

The sole question on appeal is whether, upon remand for resentencing, the trial judge erred in failing to consider, as a mitigating circumstance, defendant’s prison behavior between the time when defendant’s sentence was originally imposed and the date of the resentencing hearing. While I conclude that the judge had a duty to consider this aspect of defendant’s background in resentencing him, I believe that the judge did so adequately and, therefore, register my dissent from the majority decision to remand for resentencing.

On June 29, 1967, defendant was convicted of armed robbery, MCL…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. North Carolina v. PearceSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  2. Williams v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
  3. United States v. TuckerSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  4. People v. McFarlinMichigan Supreme Court · 1973
  5. People v. MooreMichigan Supreme Court · 1974

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