Following a bench trial, defendant was convicted of indecent exposure, MCL 750.335a; MSA 28.567(1), and of being a sexually delinquent person, MCL 750.10a; MSA 28.200(1). He was sentenced to life imprisonment. He now appeals as of right, raising three issues: (1) whether his trial attorneys’ failure to file a timely notice of an alibi defense deprived him of effective assistance of counsel, (2) whether the sentence of life imprisonment is a valid sentence, and (3) even if the sentence is valid, whether it shocks our conscience. Although we affirm defendant’s conviction, we remand this matter for resentencing because the sentence imposed is invalid under the indecent exposure-sexual delinquency statute.
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Defendant’s first argument is that his trial attorneys’ failure to file a timely notice of an alibi defense deprived him of effective assistance of counsel, US Const, Am VI; Const 1963, art 1, § 20, because such failure amounted to a serious mistake which prevented defendant from presenting a substantial defense. A defendant is entitled to have his counsel prepare, investigate, and present all substantial defenses.
People v Hubbard,
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Mich App 604, 609;
Trial counsel here filed a notice of an alibi defense, listing three proposed witnesses, including defendant’s wife. However, it was untimely under MCL 768.20; MSA 28.1043 and, therefore, the trial court excluded any evidence offered to support defendant’s alibi under MCL 768.21; MSA 28.1044.
Even if defendant’s trial attorneys were ineffective by failing to file a timely notice, we nevertheless decline to reverse defendant’s conviction. Defendant brought a posttrial motion for a new trial on the basis of his trial attorneys’ performance in this regard. At the hearing on that motion, however, defendant failed to show that he was deprived of a substantial defense. There is nothing in the record showing what the proposed alibi witnesses’ testimony would have been had they been permitted to testify on the matter and, thus, whether they would have, in fact, provided an alibi for defendant. See, e.g.,
People v Hopson,
On this same issue, defendant also urges that the trial court should have granted sua sponte a continuance so that he could have filed a timely notice of alibi. We disagree. A trial court has no duty to grant a continuance on its own motion, and, thus, absent a motion for a continuance at trial, we will not review the issue on appeal.
People v Kvam,
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Defendant’s second argument is that the sentence of life imprisonment is invalid because it is not authorized by the statute under which he was convicted. Instead of life imprisonment, defendant argues, the court should have imposed an indeterminate sentence of from one day to life. We agree that life imprisonment is not a valid sentence in this case.
The statute under which defendant was convicted provides an alternate sentence if the person convicted of indecent exposure was sexually delinquent at the time he committed the offense:
Any person who shall knowingly make any open or indecent exposure of his or her person or of the person of another shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 1 year, or by a fine of not more than $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: Provided, That any other provision of any other statute notwithstanding, said offense shall be triable only in a court of record. [MCL 750.335a; MSA 28.567(1).]
Sexual delinquency is not merely a penalty enhancement provision related to the principal charge; it is an alternate sentencing provision tied to a larger statutory scheme. See
People v Helzer,
We conclude that the alternate sentence is an indeterminate term of one day to life imprisonment. In interpreting a statute, we apply the rule of ordinary usage and common sense.
People v Wyngaard,
In any prosecution for an offense committed by a sexually delinquent person for which may be imposed an alternate sentence to imprisonment for an indeterminate term, the minimum of which is 1 day and the maximum of which is life, the indictment shall charge the offense and may also charge that the defendant was, at the time said offense was committed, a sexually delinquent person. [Emphasis added.]
Therefore, defendant’s sentence of life imprisonment is invalid under sexual delinquency sentencing.
We decline to hold that the sexually delinquent indeterminate sentence of one day to life is invalid under the indeterminate sentence act, specifically MCL 769.9(2); MSA 28.1081(2), which provides:
In all cases where the maximum sentence in the discretion of the court may be imprisonment for life or any number or term of years, the court may impose a sentence for life or may impose a sentence for any terms of years. If the sentence imposed by the court is for any term of years, the court shall fix both the minimum and the maximum of that sentence in terms of years or fraction thereof, and sentences so imposed shall be considered indeterminate sentences. The court shall not *530 impose a sentence in which the maximum penalty is life imprisonment with a minimum for a term of years included in the same sentence.
This provision, by its own terms, applies only to cases in which the maximum sentence authorized by statute is life imprisonment or any term of years. In those cases, the court shall not impose a minimum sentence for a term of years if it imposes a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. That is not the case here. Under the statute at issue here, the only maximum sentence authorized is life imprisonment. Moreover, the minimum sentence has been set by statute: one day.
Even if there is a conflict between the two provisions inasmuch as the indeterminate sentence act prohibits what the alternate sexually delinquent sentence provides, the sexually delinquent sentence is valid. Rules of statutory construction provide:
[WJhere there is an apparent conflict between two statutes, a fundamental rule of statutory construction requires that the specific statute control over the general and that the specific statute be viewed as an exception to the general rule. See Findling v T P Operating Co,139 Mich App 30 , 38;361 NW2d 376 (1984). This rule of statutory interpretation applies even where the general act is enacted subsequent to the specific act since a general act will not normally be construed as an implicit repeal of a formerly enacted, more specific act where to do so would disturb a long-standing practice or system of law. See Mayor of Port Huron v City Treasurer of Port Huron,328 Mich 99 , 111-112;43 NW2d 77 (1950), and Attorney General, ex rel Owen v Joyce,233 Mich 619 ;207 NW 863 (1926). [In re Johnson Estate,152 Mich App 200 , 205;394 NW2d 136 (1986).]
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Under the rules of statutory construction, we view the sexually delinquent sentencing scheme as a specific scheme which controls over the general indeterminate sentence act. Sexual delinquency is limited to select criminal provisions and thus is a "seldom-used category of alternate sentencing.”
Helzer, supra,
p 422. The sexual delinquency legislation was enacted to provide an alternate sentence for certain specified sexual offenses when evidence appeared to justify a more flexible form of confinement.
People v Winford,
This matter is remanded for resentencing. Under the statute at issue, MCL 750.335a; MSA 28.567(1), defendant can be resentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, to a fine of not more than $500, or to an indeterminate prison term of from one day to life. We do not retain jurisdiction.
Notes
In People v Helzer,