Justice Clement said that it would be logical and promote judicial efficiency to apply a general rule that lower courts “lose subject-matter jurisdiction over a case while an appeal pends — whether that appeal is interlocutory or final.”
The parties did not immediately reply to requests for comment Monday.
The state was represented by Joshua D. Abbott of the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office.
Scott was represented by Garrett Burton and Katherine Marcuz of the State Appellate Defender’s Office.
The case is People of Michigan v. Ronald Scott, case number 164790, in the Michigan Supreme Court.
