Michigan Court of Appeals· 5/4/2000

People v. Brown

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610 N.W.2d 234
239 Mich. App. 735

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recognizing sufficiency and great-weight arguments as “two separate questions” and rejecting a great-weight challenge that merely paralleled the defendant’s flawed sufficiency argument
recognizing sufficiency and great-weight arguments as “two separate questions” and rejecting a great-weight challenge that merely paralleled the defendant’s flawed sufficiency argument
noting that whether a defendant’s convictions were supported by sufficient evidence and whether they were against the great weight of the evidence are separate questions, but if the arguments are parallel or based on the same reasons, then both arguments succeed or fail together
“[T]he ... MBTFA ... prohibits a building contractor from retaining or using construction payments from a particular project until all laborers, subcontractors, and materialmen who worked on the project have been paid.”
“[B]ecause the MBTFA is a remedial statute, designed to protect people of the state from fraud in the construction industry, it should be construe[d] . . . liberally for the advancement of the remedy.”

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Judges: Bandstra, Markman, Meter

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