# People v. Jones

> Michigan Court of Appeals · July 1, 1980 · 98 Mich. App. 421

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9728562

## Case

- **Full name:** People v. Jones
- **Court:** Michigan Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** July 1, 1980
- **Citations:** 98 Mich. App. 421; 296 N.W.2d 268; 1980 Mich. App. LEXIS 2762
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Cavanagh
- **Judges:** Kelly, Cavanagh, Elliott
- **Cited by:** 26 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

M. F. Cavanagh, J.
(concurring). I concur with my brothers that defendant’s conviction should be affirmed. I do so separately, however, because I do not agree with the majority’s "Some General Observations” of the MRE 609(a) question. The statement by the majority that, "Perjury occurs often in criminal trials, especially by the defendant who has the most to gain by it”, is a generalization which I feel is factually unsound and hardly an appropriate guideline for those charged with the responsibility of rendering an impartial determination of guilt or innocence. As I find no abuse of discretion in the trial court’s admission of evidence of prior convictions in this case, I would affirm.

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