Court Watching: Stacy Rose sentenced to 10-15 years in prison in stabbing death

On Jan. 3, Stacy Wayne Rose, Jr., 18, of Taylor was sentenced to 10-15 years in prison after a Wayne County Circuit Court Jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
The jury found him not guilty of first degree murder, which could have brought him life in prison.
Rose fatally stabbed Robert Briscoe, Sr., 49, in the neck on July 30 in front of Briscoe’s Huron Estates mobile home in Huron Township. Briscoe was protecting his family from a group of teenagers who came to get the drugs they said Briscoe’s son took from Rose and didn’t pay.
Briscoe, an appliance repairman who was said was able to fix anything, was the father of five with several grandchildren living in his mobile home.
A preliminary exam was held before 34th District Court Chief Judge Tina Brooks Green on Aug. 30. Five witnesses testified and then Judge Green bound Rose over to circuit court.
The witnesses testified that Rose and seven others came to the Briscoe home in Huron Estates, in the 22000 block of Inkster Road, early in the evening of July 30 to demand that Tina Briscoe pay Rose $70 that her son Tyler owed him for seven Adderall pills Rose supplied to him.
She testified she told Rose that she would check with her son when he came home and if he owed anything, she would make sure it was paid.
“Your son is a f—ing dead man,” Tina Briscoe testified that Rose said to her before he left, after she had threatened to call police if he didn’t’ go away.
She asked her husband to move her company car from the driveway so it wouldn’t get damaged by the teens in case they came back. She said she was sitting on the porch and saw her oldest son Robert, Jr., running between the trailers to their home.
A large group of from 20 to 24 teens arrived and the family tried to get Tyler out of there because they were after Tyler, Tina Briscoe testified. She said one punched at her husband, into the left cheek, she thought. Her husband held his neck and called out, “I’m bleeding bad.” After the stabbing everyone disappeared, she said.
Rose’s earliest release date is July 28, 2027. The maximum release is July 28, 2032.