People v. Jagotka

I cannot join this Court’s opinion. The vast majority of the opinion, and the partial dissent from the Court of Appeals upon which it is based, deal with why a statute that requires the police to keep blood samples until trial would be a bad idea. Whatever the merits of such contentions, they do very little to address the relevant statutory language itself, particularly the sentence:

The property and things so seized shall be safely kept by the officer so long as necessary for the purpose of being *282produced or used as evidence in any trial. [MCL 780.655; MSA 28.1259(5).]

For starters, the phrase…