People v. Piper

Defendant appeals his December 12, 1988, sentence imposed after he pled guilty to second-degree murder, MCL 750.317; MSA 28.549, which he committed after an escape from jail. His twenty-five to forty-year prison sentence was made consecutive to the 1966 life sentence he was serving prior to his escape and to his 1986 sentences for other crimes which he committed while an escapee. We affirm.

In 1983, defendant escaped from the Lake County Jail* 1 where he was serving a life sentence for a first-degree criminal sexual assault and stabbing of a seventeen-year-old girl. On May 3, 1984, defendant…