People v. Hudson

Following a preliminary examination, the district court bound defendant Karen Hudson over for trial on one count of second-degree vulnerable adult abuse, MCL 750.145n(2); MSA 28.342A(n)(2), a felony. The circuit court denied Hudson’s subsequent motion to quash the bindover. This Court granted Hudson leave to appeal. We reverse.

I. BASIC FACTS

Hudson is a nurse. In 1995, she worked at the Greenery Health Care Center, a long-term-care facility, in Howell. Eighty-five-year-old Mary Parle began living at the Greenery in June 1995 after physicians determined that she had insulin-dependent diabetes…