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STATE OF MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS

CITY OF EAST LANSING, Plaintiff-Appellant, v MEREK LEO ROMAN, Defendant-Appellee.

UNPUBLISHED October 7, 2010

No. 291951 Ingham Circuit Court LC No. 08-001111-AR

Before: O'CONNELL, P.J., and BANDSTRA and MARKEY, JJ. PER CURIAM. Plaintiff appeals by leave from the circuit court's dismissal of defendant's conviction. We reverse the circuit court and remand for consideration of the issues raised but not decided below. Defendant's conviction arose from the 2008 Cedar Fest disturbance in East Lansing. Police officers videotaped the disturbance, and the resulting videotape included images of defendant at the front of a crowd in which some people were throwing objects and shouting obscenities at police. Although the videotape did not depict defendant throwing objects, the videotape does show defendant gesturing and cursing at police. Shortly after the disturbance, defendant was charged with disorderly conduct-assembling for a riot in violation of the East Lansing City Code, Art II, div 2

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