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Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.338

Gross indecency; between male persons

Applied in 54 court decisions — leading case People v. Lino (1994)

Most recently applied in People of Michigan v. Lonnie James Arnold (July 2018)

1931, Act 328, Eff

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Sec. 338. Any male person who, in public or in private, commits or is a party to the commission of or procures or attempts to procure the commission by any male person of any act of gross indecency with another male person shall be guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 5 years, or by a fine of not more than $2,500.00, or if such person was at the time of the said offense a sexually delinquent person, may be punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for an indeterminate term, the minimum of which shall be 1 day and the maximum of which shall be life.

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