Legal Opinion

People v. Williams

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided July 9, 2009No. Docket 135271; Calendar 3PublishedCited by 57 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

*228CORRIGAN, J.

In this criminal case, we consider the joinder and severance of charges against a single criminal defendant under our court rules. MCR 6.120(A) and (B) establish when a court may join offenses charged in two or more informations against a single defendant and when a court must sever offenses charged in a single information against a single defendant. This Court first adopted MCR 6.120 on October 1, 1989. Before adopting MCR 6.120, however, we had ruled 12 years earlier that two drug sales to the same undercover agent within 12 days could not be joined because “[t]he two…

2Cases cited30 opinions

  1. Blockburger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
  2. United States v. LaneSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  3. People v. LukityMichigan Supreme Court · 1999
  4. State v. ShirleyTennessee Supreme Court · 1999
  5. People v. RobinsonMichigan Supreme Court · 1972

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3Cited by57 opinions

  1. People v. GainesMichigan Court of Appeals · 2014
  2. People v. BreidenbachMichigan Supreme Court · 2011
  3. People v. MartinezMichigan Court of Appeals · 2014
  4. People of Michigan v. Kenya Ali HyattMichigan Court of Appeals · 2016
  5. People v. CampbellMichigan Court of Appeals · 2016

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