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State of Michigan v Thomas Robert Schinella |
Michigan Court of Appeals |
1987 |
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State of Michigan v Thomas J. Wesenberg |
Michigan Court of Appeals |
1999 |
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State of Michigan v Thomas Eugene Wujkowski |
Michigan Court of Appeals |
1998 |
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State of Michigan v Thomas Duane Desonia |
Michigan Court of Appeals |
2012 |
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State of Michigan v Thomas David Prehn |
Michigan Court of Appeals |
1986 |
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State of Michigan v Thomas Albert Rosema |
Michigan Court of Appeals |
2000 |
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State of Michigan v Thomas Albert Anway |
Michigan Court of Appeals |
1991 |
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State of Michigan v Thomas Alan Snyder |
Michigan Court of Appeals |
1989 |
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State of Michigan v Terry Lee George, Jr. |
Michigan Court of Appeals |
2007 |
Defendant argued that the trial court's reference to impaired driving as a "less serious offense" to operating while intoxicated misled the jury into believing that defendant would face a lesser penalty if they convicted him of impaired driving rather than OWI, when the penalties for the two offenses are the same. I tend to agree with this argument. The Court of Appeals disagreed, even though this instruction remains fundamentally flawed in the current standardized instructions. I have addressed this with members of the jury instruction committee, and I have won numerous motions to make a simple change to this instruction. Instead of characterizing the offense as “less serious,” courts will frequently change the term to “lesser included,” a simple yet effective fix. |
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State of Michigan v Terry Lamont Poole |
Michigan Court of Appeals |
1996 |
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