HOUSE BILL No. 4913

 

July 1, 2003, Introduced by Rep. Bieda and referred to the Committee on Criminal Justice.

        

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                 A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled                                             

                                                                                

    "The Michigan penal code,"                                                  

                                                                                

    by amending sections 72, 83, 88, 89, 91, 110, 213, 317, 349,                

                                                                                

    520b, 520c, 520d, 529, and 530 (MCL 750.72, 750.83, 750.88,                 

                                                                                

    750.89, 750.91, 750.110, 750.213, 750.317, 750.349, 750.520b,               

                                                                                

    750.520c, 750.520d, 750.529, and 750.530), section 110 as amended           

                                                                                

    by 1994 PA 270 and sections 520b, 520c, and 520d as amended by              

                                                                                

    2002 PA 714, and by adding section 506b.                                    

                                                                                

                THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:                      

                                                                                

1       Sec. 72.   Burning dwelling house--Any  A person who                        

                                                                                

2   wilfully  willfully or maliciously burns  any  an occupied or              

                                                                                

3   unoccupied dwelling house,  either occupied or unoccupied,  or              

                                                                                

4   the contents  thereof  of a dwelling house, whether owned by                

                                                                                

5   himself  the person or another person, or any building within              

                                                                                

6   the curtilage of  such  the dwelling house, or the contents                 

                                                                                


                                                                                

1   thereof, shall be  of the building, is guilty of a felony  ,               

                                                                                

2   punishable, except as otherwise provided in section 506b, by                

                                                                                

3   imprisonment  in the state prison  for not more than 20 years.              

                                                                                

4       Sec. 83.   Assault with intent to commit murder--Any  A                     

                                                                                

5   person who  shall assault  assaults another person with the                 

                                                                                

6   intent to commit  the crime of  murder  , shall be  is guilty of            

                                                                                

7   a felony  ,  punishable, except as otherwise provided in                    

                                                                                

8   section 506b, by imprisonment  in the state prison  for life or             

                                                                                

9   any  number  term of years.                                                 

                                                                                

10      Sec. 88.   Assault with intent to rob and steal being                       

                                                                                

11  unarmed--Any  A person  ,  not  being  armed with a dangerous               

                                                                                

12  weapon  ,  who  shall assault  assaults another person with force           

                                                                                

13  and violence, and with the intent to rob and steal,  shall be  is           

                                                                                

14  guilty of a felony  ,  punishable, except as otherwise provided             

                                                                                

15  in section 506b, by imprisonment  in the state prison  for not              

                                                                                

16  more than 15 years.                                                         

                                                                                

17      Sec. 89.   Assault with intent to rob and steal being                       

                                                                                

18  armed--Any  A person  , being  armed with a dangerous weapon  ,             

                                                                                

19  or  any  an article used or fashioned in a manner to lead a                 

                                                                                

20  person  so  who is assaulted reasonably to believe it  to be  is            

                                                                                

21  a dangerous weapon  ,  who  shall assault  assaults another                 

                                                                                

22  person with the intent to rob and steal  shall be  is guilty of a           

                                                                                

23  felony  ,  punishable, except as otherwise provided in                      

                                                                                

24  section 506b, by imprisonment  in the state prison  for life  ,             

                                                                                

25  or  for  any term of years.                                                 

                                                                                

26      Sec. 91.   Attempt to murder by poisoning, etc.--Any  A                     

                                                                                

27  person who  shall attempt  attempts to commit the crime of murder           


                                                                                

1   by poisoning, drowning, or strangling another person, or by any             

                                                                                

2   means not constituting the crime of assault with intent to                  

                                                                                

3   murder,  shall be  is guilty of a felony  ,  punishable, except             

                                                                                

4   as otherwise provided in section 506b, by imprisonment  in the              

                                                                                

5   state prison  for life or any term of years.                                

                                                                                

6       Sec. 110.  A person who breaks and enters, with intent to                   

                                                                                

7   commit a felony or a larceny therein, a tent, hotel, office,                

                                                                                

8   store, shop, warehouse, barn, granary, factory or other building,           

                                                                                

9   structure, boat, ship  ,  or railroad car is guilty of a felony             

                                                                                

10  ,  punishable, except as otherwise provided in section 506b, by            

                                                                                

11  imprisonment for not more than 10 years.                                    

                                                                                

12      Sec. 213.   Malicious threats to extort money--Any  A person                

                                                                                

13  who  shall, either  orally or by a written or printed                       

                                                                                

14  communication  ,  maliciously  threaten  threatens to accuse                

                                                                                

15  another person of  any  a crime or offense, or  shall  orally or            

                                                                                

16  by  any  a written or printed communication maliciously  threaten           

                                                                                

17  any  threatens an injury to the person or property or mother,               

                                                                                

18  father, husband, wife, or child of another person, with the                 

                                                                                

19  intent  thereby  to extort money or any pecuniary advantage,                

                                                                                

20  whatever,  or with the intent to compel the person  so                     

                                                                                

21  threatened to do or refrain from doing  any  an act against  his            

                                                                                

22  the person's will,  shall be  is guilty of a felony  ,                      

                                                                                

23  punishable, except as otherwise provided in section 506b, by                

                                                                                

24  imprisonment  in the state prison  for not more than 20 years or            

                                                                                

25  by  a fine of not more than $10,000.00,  dollars  or both.                 

                                                                                

26      Sec. 317.   Second degree murder--All other kinds of murder                 

                                                                                

27  shall be  Murder other than murder of the first degree as defined           


                                                                                

1   in section 316 is murder of the second degree, and shall be                 

                                                                                

2   punished, except as otherwise provided in section 506b, by                  

                                                                                

3   imprisonment  in the state prison  for life  ,  or any term of              

                                                                                

4   years.   , in the discretion of the court trying the same.                  

                                                                                

5       Sec. 349.  (1)  Confining person against will, etc.--Any  A                 

                                                                                

6   person who  wilfully  willfully, maliciously, and without lawful            

                                                                                

7   authority  shall  forcibly or secretly  confine or imprison                 

                                                                                

8   confines or imprisons any other person within this state against            

                                                                                

9   his  the person's will,  or shall  forcibly  carry  carries or             

                                                                                

10  send such  sends the person out of this state, or  shall                   

                                                                                

11  forcibly  seize or confine, or shall inveigle or kidnap  seizes,            

                                                                                

12  confines, inveigles, or kidnaps any other person with the intent            

                                                                                

13  to extort money or any other valuable thing  thereby  or with the           

                                                                                

14  intent either to cause  such  the person to be secretly confined            

                                                                                

15  or imprisoned in this state against  his  the person's will, or             

                                                                                

16  in any way held to service against  his  the person's will,                 

                                                                                

17  shall be  is guilty of a felony  ,  punishable, except as                  

                                                                                

18  otherwise provided in section 506b, by imprisonment  in the state           

                                                                                

19  prison  for life or  for  any term of years.                                

                                                                                

20      (2)  Every offense mentioned  An offense described in this                  

                                                                                

21  section may be tried either in the county in which the  same may            

                                                                                

22  have been  offense was committed or in any county in or through             

                                                                                

23  which the person  so  seized, taken, inveigled, or kidnaped, or             

                                                                                

24  whose services  shall be  were sold or transferred,  shall have             

                                                                                

25  been  was taken, confined, held, carried, or brought.   ; and               

                                                                                

26  upon the trial of any such  In a trial for an offense under this            

                                                                                

27  section, the consent  thereto  of the person  , so  to being                


                                                                                

1   taken, inveigled, kidnaped, or confined,  shall  or having his or           

                                                                                

2   her services sold or transferred, is not  be  a defense  ,                  

                                                                                

3   unless  it shall be made satisfactorily to appear to the jury               

                                                                                

4   that such  the consent was not obtained by fraud  nor  or                   

                                                                                

5   extorted by duress or by  threats  a threat.                                

                                                                                

6       Sec. 506b.  (1) A person who is convicted of a violation of                 

                                                                                

7   section 72, 83, 88, 89, 91, 110, 213, 317, 349, 520b, 520c, 520d,           

                                                                                

8   529, or 530 in which a victim is an elderly person and who has 1            

                                                                                

9   or more prior convictions shall be punished as follows:                     

                                                                                

10      (a) If the person has 1 prior conviction, by imprisonment for               

                                                                                

11  a minimum term of not less than 5 years.                                    

                                                                                

12      (b) If the person has 2 prior convictions, by imprisonment                  

                                                                                

13  for a minimum term of not less than 10 years.                               

                                                                                

14      (c) If the person has 3 or more prior convictions, by                       

                                                                                

15  imprisonment for life.                                                      

                                                                                

16      (2) A person described in subsection (1)(a) or (b) may be                   

                                                                                

17  sentenced to imprisonment for life if that punishment is                    

                                                                                

18  permitted by law for that offense.  A person sentenced to a                 

                                                                                

19  minimum term of imprisonment under subsection (1)(a) or (b) shall           

                                                                                

20  be sentenced to a maximum term as provided by law for that                  

                                                                                

21  offense.                                                                    

                                                                                

22      (3) A mandatory term of imprisonment imposed under                          

                                                                                

23  subsection (1) shall not be suspended.  A person sentenced to a             

                                                                                

24  mandatory term of imprisonment under subsection (1) is not                  

                                                                                

25  eligible for probation or parole during that mandatory term.                

                                                                                

26      (4) A sentence imposed under this section shall run                         

                                                                                

27  consecutively to any other sentence imposed against the person              


                                                                                

1   that arises out of the same transaction or occurrence from which            

                                                                                

2   the sentence under this section arose.                                      

                                                                                

3       (5) As used in this section:                                                

                                                                                

4       (a) "Elderly person" means a person 60 years of age or                      

                                                                                

5   older.                                                                      

                                                                                

6       (b) "Prior conviction" means a previous conviction for a                    

                                                                                

7   violation of section 72, 83, 88, 89, 91, 110, 213, 317, 349,                

                                                                                

8   520b, 520c, 520d, 529, or 530 in which the victim was an elderly            

                                                                                

9   person.                                                                     

                                                                                

10      (c) "Victim" means an individual who suffers direct or                      

                                                                                

11  threatened physical, financial, or emotional harm as a result of            

                                                                                

12  the violation.                                                              

                                                                                

13      Sec. 520b.  (1) A person is guilty of criminal sexual conduct               

                                                                                

14  in the first degree if he or she engages in sexual penetration              

                                                                                

15  with another person and if any of the following circumstances               

                                                                                

16  exists  exist:                                                             

                                                                                

17      (a) That other person is under 13 years of age.                             

                                                                                

18      (b) That other person is at least 13 but less than 16 years                 

                                                                                

19  of age and any of the following circumstances exist:                        

                                                                                

20                                                                               (i) The actor is a member of the same household as the                              

                                                                                

21  victim.                                                                     

                                                                                

22      (ii) The actor is related to the victim by blood or affinity                 

                                                                                

23  to the fourth degree.                                                       

                                                                                

24      (iii) The actor is in a position of authority over the victim                

                                                                                

25  and used this authority to coerce the victim to submit.                     

                                                                                

26      (iv) The actor is a teacher, substitute teacher, or                          

                                                                                

27  administrator of the public or nonpublic school in which that               


                                                                                

1   other person is enrolled.                                                   

                                                                                

2       (c) Sexual penetration occurs under circumstances involving                 

                                                                                

3   the commission of any other felony.                                         

                                                                                

4       (d) The actor is aided or abetted by 1 or more other persons                

                                                                                

5   and either of the following circumstances exists:                           

                                                                                

6                                                                                (i) The actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is                        

                                                                                

7   mentally incapable, mentally incapacitated, or physically                   

                                                                                

8   helpless.                                                                   

                                                                                

9       (ii) The actor uses force or coercion to accomplish the                      

                                                                                

10  sexual penetration.  Force or coercion includes but is not                  

                                                                                

11  limited to any of the circumstances listed in subdivision (f)(i)            

                                                                                

12  to (v).                                                                     

                                                                                

13      (e) The actor is armed with a weapon or any article used or                 

                                                                                

14  fashioned in a manner to lead the victim  to  reasonably to                 

                                                                                

15  believe it  to be  is a weapon.                                             

                                                                                

16      (f) The actor causes personal injury to the victim and force                

                                                                                

17  or coercion is used to accomplish sexual penetration.  Force or             

                                                                                

18  coercion includes but is not limited to any of the following                

                                                                                

19  circumstances:                                                              

                                                                                

20                                                                               (i) When the actor overcomes the victim through the actual                          

                                                                                

21  application of physical force or physical violence.                         

                                                                                

22      (ii) When the actor coerces the victim to submit by                          

                                                                                

23  threatening to use force or violence on the victim, and the                 

                                                                                

24  victim believes that the actor has the present ability to execute           

                                                                                

25  these threats.                                                              

                                                                                

26      (iii) When the actor coerces the victim to submit by                         

                                                                                

27  threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim, or any           


                                                                                

1   other person, and the victim believes that the actor has the                

                                                                                

2   ability to execute this threat.  As used in this subdivision, "to           

                                                                                

3   retaliate" includes threats of physical punishment, kidnapping,             

                                                                                

4   or extortion.                                                               

                                                                                

5       (iv) When the actor engages in the medical treatment or                      

                                                                                

6   examination of the victim in a manner or for purposes  which                

                                                                                

7   that are medically recognized as unethical or unacceptable.                 

                                                                                

8       (v) When the actor, through concealment or by the element of                

                                                                                

9   surprise, is able to overcome the victim.                                   

                                                                                

10      (g) The actor causes personal injury to the victim, and the                 

                                                                                

11  actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally               

                                                                                

12  incapable, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless.                  

                                                                                

13      (h) That other person is mentally incapable, mentally                       

                                                                                

14  disabled, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless, and any           

                                                                                

15  of the following circumstances exist:                                       

                                                                                

16                                                                               (i) The actor is related to the victim by blood or affinity                         

                                                                                

17  to the fourth degree.                                                       

                                                                                

18      (ii) The actor is in a position of authority over the victim                 

                                                                                

19  and used this authority to coerce the victim to submit.                     

                                                                                

20      (2) Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree is a felony                 

                                                                                

21  punishable, except as provided in section 506b, by imprisonment             

                                                                                

22  in the state prison  for life or  for  any term of years.                  

                                                                                

23      Sec. 520c.  (1) A person is guilty of criminal sexual conduct               

                                                                                

24  in the second degree if the person engages in sexual contact with           

                                                                                

25  another person and if any of the following circumstances  exists            

                                                                                

26  exist:                                                                      

                                                                                

27      (a) That other person is under 13 years of age.                             


                                                                                

1       (b) That other person is at least 13 but less than 16 years                 

                                                                                

2   of age and any of the following circumstances exist:                        

                                                                                

3                                                                                (i) The actor is a member of the same household as the                              

                                                                                

4   victim.                                                                     

                                                                                

5       (ii) The actor is related by blood or affinity to the fourth                 

                                                                                

6   degree to the victim.                                                       

                                                                                

7       (iii) The actor is in a position of authority over the victim                

                                                                                

8   and the actor used this authority to coerce the victim to                   

                                                                                

9   submit.                                                                     

                                                                                

10      (iv) The actor is a teacher, substitute teacher, or                          

                                                                                

11  administrator of the public or nonpublic school in which that               

                                                                                

12  other person is enrolled.                                                   

                                                                                

13      (c) Sexual contact occurs under circumstances involving the                 

                                                                                

14  commission of any other felony.                                             

                                                                                

15      (d) The actor is aided or abetted by 1 or more other persons                

                                                                                

16  and either of the following circumstances exists:                           

                                                                                

17                                                                               (i) The actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is                        

                                                                                

18  mentally incapable, mentally incapacitated, or physically                   

                                                                                

19  helpless.                                                                   

                                                                                

20      (ii) The actor uses force or coercion to accomplish the                      

                                                                                

21  sexual contact.  Force or coercion includes, but is not limited             

                                                                                

22  to, any of the circumstances listed in  sections  section                   

                                                                                

23  520b(1)(f)(i) to (v).                                                        

                                                                                

24      (e) The actor is armed with a weapon, or any article used or                

                                                                                

25  fashioned in a manner to lead a person to reasonably believe it             

                                                                                

26  to be a weapon.                                                             

                                                                                

27      (f) The actor causes personal injury to the victim and force                


                                                                                

1   or coercion is used to accomplish the sexual contact.  Force or             

                                                                                

2   coercion includes, but is not limited to, any of the                        

                                                                                

3   circumstances listed in section 520b(1)(f)(i) to (v).                        

                                                                                

4       (g) The actor causes personal injury to the victim and the                  

                                                                                

5   actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally               

                                                                                

6   incapable, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless.                  

                                                                                

7       (h) That other person is mentally incapable, mentally                       

                                                                                

8   disabled, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless, and any           

                                                                                

9   of the following circumstances exist:                                       

                                                                                

10                                                                               (i) The actor is related to the victim by blood or affinity                         

                                                                                

11  to the fourth degree.                                                       

                                                                                

12      (ii) The actor is in a position of authority over the victim                 

                                                                                

13  and used this authority to coerce the victim to submit.                     

                                                                                

14      (i) That other person is under the jurisdiction of the                      

                                                                                

15  department of corrections and the actor is an employee or a                 

                                                                                

16  contractual employee of, or a volunteer with, the department of             

                                                                                

17  corrections who knows that the other person is under the                    

                                                                                

18  jurisdiction of the department of corrections.                              

                                                                                

19      (j) That other person is under the jurisdiction of the                      

                                                                                

20  department of corrections and the actor is an employee or a                 

                                                                                

21  contractual employee of, or a volunteer with, a private vendor              

                                                                                

22  that operates a youth correctional facility under section 20g of            

                                                                                

23  1953 PA 232, MCL 791.220g, who knows that the other person is               

                                                                                

24  under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections.                    

                                                                                

25      (k) That other person is a prisoner or probationer under the                

                                                                                

26  jurisdiction of a county for purposes of imprisonment or a work             

                                                                                

27  program or other probationary program and the actor is an                   


                                                                                

1   employee or a contractual employee of or a volunteer with the               

                                                                                

2   county or the department of corrections who knows that the other            

                                                                                

3   person is under the county's jurisdiction.                                  

                                                                                

4                                                                                (l) The actor knows or has reason to know that a court has                          

                                                                                

5   detained the victim in a facility while the victim is awaiting a            

                                                                                

6   trial or hearing, or committed the victim to a facility as a                

                                                                                

7   result of the victim having been found responsible for committing           

                                                                                

8   an act that would be a crime if committed by an adult, and the              

                                                                                

9   actor is an employee or contractual employee of, or a volunteer             

                                                                                

10  with, the facility in which the victim is detained or to which              

                                                                                

11  the victim was committed.                                                   

                                                                                

12      (2) Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree is a felony                

                                                                                

13  punishable, except as provided in section 506b, by imprisonment             

                                                                                

14  for not more than 15 years.                                                 

                                                                                

15      Sec. 520d.  (1) A person is guilty of criminal sexual conduct               

                                                                                

16  in the third degree if the person engages in sexual penetration             

                                                                                

17  with another person and if any of the following circumstances               

                                                                                

18  exist:                                                                      

                                                                                

19      (a) That other person is at least 13 years of age and under                 

                                                                                

20  16 years of age.                                                            

                                                                                

21      (b) Force or coercion is used to accomplish the sexual                      

                                                                                

22  penetration.  Force or coercion includes but is not limited to              

                                                                                

23  any of the circumstances listed in section 520b(1)(f)(i) to (v).             

                                                                                

24      (c) The actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is                

                                                                                

25  mentally incapable, mentally incapacitated, or physically                   

                                                                                

26  helpless.                                                                   

                                                                                

27      (d) That other person is related to the actor by blood or                   


                                                                                

1   affinity to the third degree and the sexual penetration occurs              

                                                                                

2   under circumstances not otherwise prohibited by this chapter.  It           

                                                                                

3   is an affirmative defense to a prosecution under this subdivision           

                                                                                

4   that the other person was in a position of authority over the               

                                                                                

5   defendant and used this authority to coerce the defendant to                

                                                                                

6   violate this subdivision.  The defendant has the burden of                  

                                                                                

7   proving this defense by a preponderance of the evidence.  This              

                                                                                

8   subdivision does not apply if both persons are lawfully married             

                                                                                

9   to each other at the time of the alleged violation.                         

                                                                                

10      (e) That other person is at least 16 years of age but less                  

                                                                                

11  than 18 years of age and a student at a public or nonpublic                 

                                                                                

12  school, and the actor is a teacher, substitute teacher, or                  

                                                                                

13  administrator of that public or nonpublic school.  This                     

                                                                                

14  subdivision does not apply if the other person is emancipated or            

                                                                                

15  if both persons are lawfully married to each other at the time of           

                                                                                

16  the alleged violation.                                                      

                                                                                

17      (2) Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree is a felony                 

                                                                                

18  punishable, except as provided by section 506b, by imprisonment             

                                                                                

19  for not more than 15 years.                                                 

                                                                                

20      Sec. 529.   Any  A person who  shall assault  assaults                      

                                                                                

21  another  ,  person and  shall  feloniously  rob, steal and take             

                                                                                

22  from his  robs, steals, and takes from the other person, or in              

                                                                                

23  his  the other person's presence, any money or other property  ,           

                                                                                

24  which  that may be the subject of larceny  , such robber being              

                                                                                

25  while armed with a dangerous weapon  ,  or any article used or              

                                                                                

26  fashioned in a manner to lead the person  so  assaulted  to                 

                                                                                

27  reasonably to believe it to be a dangerous weapon  , shall be  is           


                                                                                

1   guilty of a felony  ,  punishable, except as otherwise provided             

                                                                                

2   in section 506b, by imprisonment  in the state prison  for life             

                                                                                

3   or  for  any term of years.  If an aggravated assault or serious            

                                                                                

4   injury is inflicted by any person while  committing an armed                

                                                                                

5   robbery as defined in  violating this section, except as                    

                                                                                

6   otherwise provided in section 506b, the  sentence  person shall             

                                                                                

7   be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than 2 years.  years'             

                                                                                

8   imprisonment in the state prison.                                           

                                                                                

9       Sec. 530.   Robbery unarmed--Any  A person who  shall,  by                  

                                                                                

10  force and violence  ,  or by assault or putting in fear  ,                  

                                                                                

11  feloniously  rob, steal and take  robs, steals, and takes from              

                                                                                

12  the person of another, or in  his  the other person's presence,             

                                                                                

13  any money or other property  which  that may be the subject of              

                                                                                

14  larceny,  such robber  while not  being  armed with a dangerous             

                                                                                

15  weapon,  shall be  is guilty of a felony  ,  punishable, except             

                                                                                

16  as otherwise provided in section 506b, by imprisonment  in the              

                                                                                

17  state prison  for not more than 15 years.