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STATE OF MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS

PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v MARK COLIN JENNINGS II, Defendant-Appellant.

UNPUBLISHED March 13, 2012

No. 302403 Saginaw Circuit Court LC No. 08-031116-FC

Before: STEPHENS, P.J., and CAVANAGH and SAAD, JJ. PER CURIAM. Defendant appeals by right his jury trial conviction of criminal sexual conduct, first degree (CSC I), MCL 750.520b(1)(b) (victim a relative between 13 and 16 years old). The trial court sentenced defendant as a habitual offender second, MCL 769.11, to serve 30 to 50 years in prison. We affirm. Defendant's first issue on appeal is that MCL 768.27a, which allows evidence of past acts of sexual abuse against minors to be admitted and was utilized for the testimony of five witnesses in this case, is unconstitutional because it contravenes a judicially created rule of evidence, which impinges on the constitutional authority of the Supreme Court to establish the procedures of the court system. Const 1963, art 6,

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