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STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS


PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v JASON ALLEN TAGGART, Defendant-Appellant.

UNPUBLISHED October 1, 1996

No. 185411 LC No. 94-000145-FC

Before: J.H. Gillis, P.J., and G.S. Allen and J.B. Sullivan, JJ.* MEMORANDUM. Defendant pleaded guilty to manslaughter, MCL 750.321; MSA 28.553, and was sentenced to ten to fifteen years' imprisonment. He appeals as of right. We affirm. This case has been decided without oral argument pursuant to MCR 7.214(A). Defendant challenges the sentencing court's scoring of Offense Variables 3 and 4. Even if we found defendant's challenges to be meritorious, a correction of the alleged scoring errors, and the resulting reduction in the guidelines' range, would not affect the length of the sentence imposed in this case. The record establishes that the sentencing court departed from a higher guidelines' range because the range inadequately reflected the seriousness of the offense and imposed the maximum allowable minimum sentence. Accordingly, we need not address the challenges. Cf. People v Jarvi, 216 Mich App 161; 548 NW2d 676 (1996); People v Kaczorowski, 190 Mich App 165, 174; 475 NW2d 861 (1991). Affirmed. /s/ John H. Gillis /s/ Glenn S. Allen, Jr. /s/ Joseph B. Sullivan

*Former Court of Appeals judges, sitting on the Court of Appeals by assignment pursuant to Administrative Order 1996-3. -1



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