People v. Shier

i. case history

This Court’s unpublished opinion per curiam, reversing defendant’s conviction, was released on June 24, 1997 (Docket No. 184811); the Michigan Supreme Court has denied the prosecutor’s application for leave to appeal that decision. 1 In that opinion, this Court made the following comments in footnote 2:

The difficulty in resolving this appeal was compounded by the oral argument we heard in this case. Attorney Jane Thurston, who was representing defendant at the time, *207made false representations to this Court. Ms. Thurston told this Court that defendant had been convicted of esc I…