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STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS


PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v TRACY ALEXANDER MARTIN, Defendant-Appellant.

UNPUBLISHED July 9, 1996

No. 163040 LC No. 92-003857-FC

Before: Hoekstra, P.J., and Saad and S.J. Latreille,* JJ. PER CURIAM. The jury convicted defendant of three counts of first-degree murder, under premeditated and felony murder theories, MCL 750.316; MSA 28.548. The court sentenced defendant to a single term of mandatory life imprisonment without parole for all counts, to be served consecutive to an unrelated sentence for assault. Defendant now appeals his convictions and sentence, and we vacate defendant's two felony murder convictions and affirm both the first-degree premeditated murder conviction and the mandatory life sentence. I. Because he claims that he gave his statement in violation of Miranda v Arizona, 384 US 436; 86 S Ct 1602; 16 L Ed 694 (1966), defendant argues that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress. The police arrested defendant a week after the murder; advised him of his Miranda rights, and took him to the police station about 4:00 p.m. He declined to speak with detectives until his mother arrived at 6:22 p.m. He first confessed to the murder, and then at about 8:00 p.m., he gave a tape recorded statement in which he again confessed. At the beginning of the interrogation at the police station, defendant stated to detectives, "Man, it is

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