People v. Sinclair

Following a jury trial, defendant was convicted of armed robbery, MCL 750.529. He was thereafter sentenced as a fourth-offense habitual offender, MCL 769.12, to a term of forty to sixty years of imprisonment. Defendant appeals as of right, and we affirm.

This case arises out of a robbery that occurred at a Rite Aid pharmacy in the city of Clarkston. Defendant accomplished the robbery by putting a telephone in a bag and handing a note to a pharmacy technician claiming that he had a bomb and that he wanted Dilaudid, a narcotic. Several of the employees were able to identify defendant as the…