Legal Opinion
People v. Thomas
Michigan Court of Appeals
Decided October 21, 1991No. Docket 111910PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Per curiam
Defendant was convicted, following a jury trial, of two counts of first-degree felony murder. MCL 750.316; MSA 28.548. He was sentenced to serve life in prison. He now appeals and we reverse.
The murders that gave rise to defendant’s convictions occurred on December 6, 1974. Defendant was charged in those murders shortly after their commission, pleaded guilty of two counts of second-degree murder on March 12, 1975, and was sentenced to serve forty to one hundred years in prison for each conviction. Following various unsuccessful appeals to this Court and the Supreme Court and an attempt to…
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