People v. Crabtree

The defendant was convicted by a jury of criminal sexual conduct in the third degree, MCL 750.520(d)(1); MSA 28.788(4X1), and was sentenced to a term of imprisonment from 4 to 15 years.

The 14-year-old alleged victim in this matter, as a result of apparent peer group pressures and inner dilemmas which we only speculate about, visited the prosecutor on thé day before trial was *725to begin. She informed him that she wanted to drop the charges against the defendant and explained that "he didn’t touch me” and that a police officer had pressured her into the charge in the first place. The prosecutor…