PEOPLE OF MI V ERIK WILLIAM SKIDMORE
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STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS
PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN,
UNPUBLISHED
June 24, 2008
Plaintiff-Appellee,
v
No. 274207
Jackson Circuit Court
LC No. 06-003318-FH
ERIK WILLIAM SKIDMORE,
Defendant-Appellant.
Before: Wilder, P.J., and O’Connell and Whitbeck, JJ.
WHITBECK, J. (concurring).
I write separately to acknowledge that there may appear to be a contradiction between
this opinion and my dissent in People v Johnson.1 I emphasize, however, that this case is
distinguishable on the facts. Johnson involved a domestic assault and kidnapping dispute where,
at time of the trial, one of the jurors was a complainant in a domestic violence case and the same
special unit of the office of the Oakland County Prosecuting Attorney was prosecuting both cases
at the same time.2 In Johnson, during voir dire, the juror admitted that she had been the victim of
an assault in the past, but did not mention her current involvement in the domestic violence
case.3 The juror also allegedly told the assistant prosecuting attorney assigned to prosecute the
Oakland County case that she had already decided to convict Johnson before the trial began.4
Johnson is therefore substantially different from the present case. Here, the juror in question
openly acknowledged during voir dire that he was a police officer and often worked on similar
narcotics cases.5 Our holding today in Skidmore is therefore, not inconsistent with my dissent in
Johnson, and I therefore agree with the majority’s decision to affirm.
/s/ William C. Whitbeck
1
People v Johnson, 245 Mich App 243; 631 NW2d 1 (2001).
2
Id. at 252.
3
Id. at 250-252.
4
Id. at 258.
5
Id. at 250-252; see id. at 291-292 (Whitbeck, J., dissenting).
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