People of Michigan v. Marquis Deshaune Jenkins

CourtMichigan Court of Appeals
DecidedMay 20, 2021
Docket351524
StatusUnpublished

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Opinion

If this opinion indicates that it is “FOR PUBLICATION,” it is subject to revision until final publication in the Michigan Appeals Reports.

STATE OF MICHIGAN

COURT OF APPEALS

PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN, UNPUBLISHED May 20, 2021 Plaintiff-Appellee,

V No. 351524 Kent Circuit Court MARQUIS DESHAUNE JENKINS, LC No. 19-000294-FH

Defendant-Appellant.

Before: MARKEY, P.J., and M. J. KELLY and SWARTZLE, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Defendant Marquis Deshaune Jenkins appeals by right his jury trial conviction of first- degree home invasion, MCL 750.110a(2). He was sentenced to 132 months to 50 years’ imprisonment for the conviction. We affirm defendant’s conviction and sentence, but we remand to the trial court for the ministerial task of correcting the presentence investigation report (PSIR).

This case arises out of a home invasion in which the victim, a grandmother, was assaulted when defendant made forcible entry into her home. On December 12, 2018, the victim was at her home along with 12 other family members, friends, and acquaintances, not including defendant. Defendant arrived and visited at the home in the afternoon, but he left later that afternoon following an incident that resulted in the victim’s not wanting him in her home. He was not invited back. When defendant was unable to stay at a local shelter as planned, he returned to the victim’s home at approximately 1:30 a.m. Defendant knocked on the door of the home, and when the victim was unable to see anyone through the peephole, she cracked the door open approximately three inches. The victim saw defendant and told him that he could not come inside. The victim testified that defendant then “came barreling through the front door and shoved [her] back onto the couch.” She indicated that the door hit her first and then defendant “came at [her].” The victim asserted that defendant plowed through the front door with unexpected force. There were a number of eyewitnesses who testified at trial that defendant pushed the door open, which threw the victim backward, and/or that defendant shoved the victim after he had burst into the home. All of the eyewitnesses to the assault indicated that defendant was not invited into the house and that the victim looked scared when defendant came through the front door.

-1- The victim then ran upstairs to get her phone, and she told a friend to lock herself in a bedroom with the friend’s three children. The victim locked herself in a bathroom and called 911. When the police arrived, defendant went to the front door. An officer commanded defendant to come outside with his hands up, but defendant instead ran to the home’s back door. Other police officers, however, were already stationed at the back door; consequently, defendant ran upstairs to a bedroom in which there were two children. Defendant had lain down on a bed with one of the children and told them to pretend that he was asleep. Officers entered the home and found defendant in the bedroom on the bed. After a struggle, the police subdued and arrested him. Defendant testified on his own behalf and asserted that he did not assault or batter the victim in any form or fashion. The jury convicted defendant of first-degree home invasion.

At the sentencing hearing, the prosecutor indicated that he had no additions or corrections to the PSIR, which included the sentencing information report showing the scoring of the guidelines by a probation officer. The trial court then asked defense counsel whether he had reviewed the PSIR, and counsel replied in the affirmative. On further query by the court, defense counsel stated that there were no objections to the PSIR. Defendant himself then interjected with objections regarding the accuracy of the information about his criminal history found in the PSIR. After some discussion concerning defendant’s criminal record and the impact on the scoring of the prior record variables (PRVs), along with a brief adjournment for the court to verify information, the trial court struck or decided not to consider some of defendant’s past listed offenses while also confirming convictions on other listed offenses. Ultimately, defendant remained at PRV Level F—the highest level. See MCL 777.63 (sentencing grid for Class B offenses such as first-degree home invasion, MCL 777.16f). Additionally, the trial court agreed to strike language in the PSIR with respect to an alleged sexual assault defendant committed during the home invasion. The trial court noted that defendant was not charged with the sexual assault and that the court had excluded evidence on that incident at the trial. The prosecutor agreed to strike the sexual assault language. On our review of the PSIR, we note, however, that the language has not been redacted as agreed upon; this forms the basis of one of defendant’s arguments on appeal. With regard to the offense variables (OVs), defendant was assessed 25 points for OV 9, MCL 777.39(1)(b) (“10 or more victims who were placed in danger of physical injury or death”). The remaining OVs were assessed zero points, and defendant’s total OV score of 25 points placed him at OV Level III on the grid for Class B offenses. MCL 777.63. Defendant did not challenge the scoring of OV 9 at sentencing, in a motion for resentencing, or in a motion to remand. But he does argue on appeal that OV 9 should have been assessed 10 points at most on the basis of “2 to 9 victims” being placed in danger, MCL 777.39(1)(c), which would alter the OV level and guidelines range.

There is another aspect of the sentencing that we feel compelled to discuss. We begin with a little background information to give context to our discussion. The PSIR indicated that on March 30, 2018, more than eight months before defendant committed the home invasion, defendant engaged in conduct that led to the following four charges: unarmed robbery, resisting and obstructing an officer, possession of marijuana, and attempted larceny in a building. There was also a fourth-offense habitual offender notice. According to the PSIR, defendant pleaded guilty on October 25, 2018, to resisting and obstructing an officer and attempted larceny in a building. It appears that the habitual offender notice was dismissed under the plea along with the unarmed robbery and marijuana charges. Defendant was sentenced on December 10, 2018, in that case, which was a couple of days before the home invasion occurred.

-2- The PSIR indicated on page 1 that defendant was convicted by a jury of first-degree home invasion. But just below that information, the PSIR stated: “In exchange for his plea Ct 4 Habitual Offender 4th was dismissed.” Here, there was no plea, nor was there a Count 4. The reference appears to have pertained to the prior case against defendant. In preparing the sentencing information report with the scored OVs and PRVs, the probation agent stated on the form that there was no habitual enhancement, and indeed the applied guidelines range of 84 to 140 months’ imprisonment reflected no habitual enhancement. See MCL 777.63 (PRV Level F; OV Level III). The amended felony information, however, contained a charge of first-degree home invasion and a fourth-offense habitual offender notice, identifying as the three underlying felonies the October 2018 plea-based convictions of attempted larceny in a building and resisting and obstructing an officer and a plea-based conviction from February 2018 for attempted fleeing and eluding.

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