Opinion
Docket No. 19743.
Decided February 25, 1975.
Appeal from Recorder's Court of Detroit, John R. Murphy, J. Submitted Division 1 February 11, 1975, at Detroit. (Docket No. 19743.) Decided February 25, 1975.
John E. Polk was charged with violation of the Controlled Substances Act. From an order of the magistrate dismissing the complaint and warrant and discharging the defendant, the people appeal. Appeal dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Patricia J. Boyle, Principal Attorney, Research, Training and Appeals, and Angelo A. Pentolino, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
Marshall C. Hill, for defendant on appeal.
Before: LESINSKI, C.J., and BASHARA and N.J. KAUFMAN, JJ.
Dr. John E. Polk was arrested in the City of Detroit for violation of the Controlled Substances Act, MCLA 335.341(1)(b); MSA 18.1070(41)(1)(b). On February 4, 1974, Recorder's Court Judge John R. Murphy, sitting as an examining magistrate, dismissed the complaint and warrant, and discharged defendant. The people filed a claim of appeal in this Court. We conclude that the claim of appeal was improvidently accepted, and the appeal must be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.
The proper and exclusive remedy for review by the people of a magistrate's determination to discharge an accused at the conclusion of a preliminary examination is by means of filing an original civil complaint for an order of superintending control, which must be filed in circuit court. See People v Flint Municipal Judge, 383 Mich. 429, 431-432; 175 N.W.2d 750, 751-752 (1970), People v Paille #1, 383 Mich. 605; 178 N.W.2d 469 (1970), People v Cason, 387 Mich. 586; 198 N.W.2d 292 (1972), Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney v Recorder's Court Judge, 27 Mich. App. 419; 183 N.W.2d 577 (1970), and Gray v Recorder's Court Judges, 51 Mich. App. 386, 391-392; 215 N.W.2d 198, 201-202 (1974). Accordingly, this appeal must be dismissed.
We note in passing that the main question sought to be decided by the people in this appeal has been settled contrary to the position of the people in People v Kerwin, 56 Mich. App. 483; 224 N.W.2d 113 (1974).
Appeal dismissed.