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<p>&lt;p&gt;On Friday, September 11, 2009, the Michigan Supreme Court granted, in part, the defendant&#39;s motion for rehearing in &lt;em&gt;People v. Borgne&lt;/em&gt;.&#39;  In &lt;em&gt;Borgne&lt;/em&gt;, the Court held that the prosecution violated&#39; Borgne&#39;s constitutional rights by using his&#39; post-arrest, post-&lt;em&gt;Miranda&#39; &lt;/em&gt;silence against him.&#39;  Nonetheless, the Court concluded that this violation did not rise to the level of plain error and affirmed&#39; Borgne&#39;s conviction.&#39;  Our earlier discussion of the opinion in &lt;em&gt;Borgne &lt;/em&gt;is &lt;a title=&quot;OCJ Post on People v. Borgne&quot; href=&quot;http://www.ocjblog.com/&#39;p=2063&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#39;  In its &lt;a title=&quot;Order granting Rehearing&quot; href=&quot;http://coa.courts.mi.gov/documents/SCT/PUBLIC/ORDERS/20090911_S134967_76_rehg_558_1_jan_09_134967_09-11-09.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;order&lt;/a&gt;&#39; granting rehearing in part, the Court addressed Borgne&#39;s contention that his attorney&#39;s failure to&#39; object to the prosecution&#39;s references to his&#39; constitutional protected silence was ineffective assistance of counsel.&#39;  The Court concluded that the evidence against Borgne at trial was overwhelming and that Borgne&#39;s counsel&#39;s failure to object did not prejudice Borgne.&#39;  Chief Justice Kelly and Justices Cavanagh and Hathaway would have, in lieu of granting rehearing, remanded the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel to the Court of Appeals.&lt;/p&gt;</p>

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MSC Order:  Rehearing granted in part in People v. Borgne

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MSC Order: Rehearing granted in part in People v. Borgne

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