People v. Johnson

The defendant, his brother Jerome Johnson, and a person named Leon, who was neither found nor arrested, were all named as coconspirators in this matter. The defendant and Jerome were tried together but Jerome pled guilty before his case went to the jury. This appeal by right follows defendant’s conviction.

Michael Pierrie, a drug-addict informant, and Daniel Michael Averill, an undercover state police trooper, testified that the defendant parked his car behind theirs on a street in the City of Saginaw. Pierrie went to the defendant’s car to arrange a heroin deal while Averill remained in his…