People v. Janes

In this interlocutory criminal appeal, the prosecution appeals by leave granted the circuit court’s order denying defendant John Wesley Janes’s motion to quash his bindover on the charge of owning a dangerous animal causing serious injury. See MCL 287.323(2). Although the circuit court denied Janes’s motion to quash, it also determined that the statute at issue was not a strict-liability offense, as the prosecutor contended, and it warned the prosecutor that she would have to prove at trial that Janes had a negligent criminal intent. On appeal, the prosecution argues that the circuit court…