People v. Diamond

Following a protracted legal brouhaha, we must finally resolve the issue raised by defendant: where probation authorities and law enforcement officials, owing to haphazard record-keeping, are unable to corral a wayward probationer, failing in his duty to report but leaving scattered clues of his whereabouts, should a court void a subsequent probation revocation? This statement of the issue requires more labor than the answer, for our resolution in this case is a confident "No”.

Many of the essential facts leading to this appeal are reported in a previous opinion, People v Diamond, 59 Mich App…