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People v. Cain

Citations

  • 605 N.W.2d 28
  • 238 Mich. App. 95

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that prejudice was not established even though some evidence was lost and witnesses had slight memory loss and may have forgotten some specific dates
  • holding that a constitutional violation did not occur in the context of a 27-month pretrial delay
  • noting that a criminal defendant need not take any special steps to preserve a challenge to the proportionality of a sentence
  • explaining that “[t]he length of delay is not determinative of a speedy trial claim”
  • noting, “we cannot ignore the fact that [the defendant] waited eighteen months to assert her right to a speedy trial[.]”
  • affirming larceny conviction because victim lacked mental capacity to consent to taking

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Whttbeck, Whitbeck, Markman, O'Connell

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