People v. Carpenter

Defendant Gerald Carpenter and codefendant Lloyd George Zimmerman were convicted by a jury of four counts of armed robbery, MCL 750.529; MSA 28.797, and one count of felony-firearm, MCL 750.227b; MSA 28.424(2). Defendant was sentenced to a prison term of from two to ten years on each armed robbery conviction, to be served concurrently, and a mandatory two year prison term on the felony-firearm conviction.

Defendant’s conviction arose out of a robbery of four individuals in the early morning hours at an apartment where one of the victims resided. Zimmerman testified that he participated in the…