Legal Opinion
People v. Sinclair
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided March 9, 1972No. 19 October Term 1971, Docket No. 53,550PublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Per curiam
For the reasons set forth in our several opinions, the judgment of conviction of defendant Sinclair is reversed and set aside and the defendant discharged.
T. M. Kavanagh, C. J., and T. G. Kavanagh, Swainson and Williams, JJ., concurred. Swainson, J.
Defendant, John A. Sinclair, was arrested on January 24, 1967, and charged with the unlawful sale 1 and unlawful possession 2 of two marijuana cigarettes. Defendant was convicted by a jury in the Recorder’s Court for the City of Detroit of unlawful possession of the two marijuana cigarettes, on July 25, 1969, and on July 28, 1969, he was sentenced…
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