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MAKOWSKI v. GOVERNOR

Docket No. 146867. Calendar No. 4.

852 N.W.2d 61 (2014)

495 Mich. 465

MAKOWSKI v. GOVERNOR.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 3, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul D. Reingold and Charles L. Levin, Detroit, for plaintiff.

Bill Schuette, Attorney General, Aaron D. Lindstrom, Solicitor General, and A. Peter Govorchin, Assistant Attorney General, for defendants.

MICHAEL F. CAVANAGH, J.

This case requires us to consider the extent to which the Governor's exercise of the pardon powers conferred by Const. 1963, art. 5, § 14 is justiciable; whether our review of the pardon powers offends the separation-of-powers doctrine; whether the commutation of plaintiff's sentence was complete; and whether Const. 1963, art. 5, § 14 grants the Governor the power to revoke a commutation. We hold that the extent of the Governor's...

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