People v. Best

Michigan Court of Appeals

People v. Best

175 N.W.2d 40, 21 Mich. App. 156, 1970 Mich. App. LEXIS 2059

CourtMichigan Court of Appeals

DecidedJanuary 27, 1970

DocketDocket 6,588

StatusPublished

Cited by2 cases

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People v. Best, 175 N.W.2d 40, 21 Mich. App. 156, 1970 Mich. App. LEXIS 2059 (Mich. Ct. App. 1970).

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Opinion

Per Curiam.

Defendant pled guilty to a charge of robbery unarmed in violation of MCLA § 750.530 *157 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.798) and he was sentenced to a 3- to 15-year prison term on September 17,1968.

Following the filing of appellant’s brief, the people filed a motion to affirm. GCR 1963, 817.5(3).

There is no basis in the record for the claim advanced upon appeal that the defendant “was lured and induced” to plead guilty by “an expectation of leniency.”

The defendant’s participation in the commission of the crime was adequately established by direct questioning of the defendant as required by People v. Barrows (1959), 358 Mich 267, 272; the defendant stated, “I robbed a gas station” and later, “We held the gas station up.”

The sentence was not, contrary to the defendant’s remaining assignment of error, “too severe,” nor did it “arbitrarily deprive the defendant of his Fourteenth Amendment right to equal and impartial justice.”

It is manifest that the questions sought to be reviewed, on which decision of the cause depends, are so insubstantial as to need no argument or formal submission.

Motion to affirm is granted.

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