MENOMINEE, MI— The Michigan Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of a Menominee man on drug charges.
A jury found Nicholas Rivard, 39, guilty in October of 2022 of two counts of delivery of meth, two counts of delivery of less than 50 grams of a mixture containing fentanyl, and one count of maintaining a drug house. He was sentenced as a third-offense habitual offender to concurrent sentences of 7.5 to 40 years in prison for the delivery convictions and 32 months to 4 years for maintaining a drug house.
Rivard appealed the convictions, claiming entrapment and that the prosecution didn’t produce a confidential informant at trial. The appellate court said Rivard’s testimony differed greatly from the undercover officers’, and they found his testimony less credible. The court also said Rivard knew the identity of the informant well before the trial.
The conviction and sentences were upheld.
