People v. David Wells

Following a month-long trial in Bay County before Judge John X. Theiler, defendant was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder, felony murder-robbery, and felony murder-larceny, MCL 750.316; MSA 28.548, on each of three counts charged in the shooting deaths of Merle Behmlander, Earl Brown, and Manny Almaguer. The trial judge sentenced defendant to the mandatory term of life imprisonment without parole from which defendant brings this appeal as of right.

Defendant David "Frenchy” Wells was tried separately from two codefendants, Donald Hall and Ronald Wiltse, who were convicted of…