SAGINAW, MI — More than three weeks after agreeing to give a new trial to Logan S. Gaines, the former Birch Run High School star athlete convicted of having sex and other sexual relations with teen girls when he was 18 and 19, prosecutors are seeking to withdraw the approval.

In his motion, Sahli states that the stipulation, which means that both the prosecution and defense agree to it and which Saginaw County Circuit Judge Janet M. Boes granted on Feb. 4, was “based upon representations by (Gaines' trial attorney) James A. Brisbois Jr. that he had previously reached a plea agreement with Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Jennifer Barnes” but that then-county Prosecutor Michael D. Thomas withdrew it, reassigned the Gaines case to Sahli, and ordered him to proceed without further negotiations.

“Based upon those representations,” Sahli writes, the prosecutor's office “entered into the aforementioned stipulations for the reasons that (they) were in 'the best interests of justice.” But since entering into the stipulation, Sahli continues, the prosecutor's office “has learned that there was no plea agreement reached” between Brisbois and Barnes.

The stipulations “were agreed to based upon erroneous information and … it is no longer in the 'best interests of justice' to continue with a new trial,” Sahli writes.

The stipulations came about 10 months after Boes sentenced Gaines to four to 15 years in prison for four counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct against someone ages 13 through 15.

Gaines recently was transported from the Carson City Correctional Facility to the Saginaw County Jail, where he remains. A hearing regarding his bond has been rescheduled twice and now is scheduled for March 4, the same day Boes is scheduled to rule on Sahli's motion.

In addition to the four sexual assault charges, Gaines also was convicted of two counts of accosting a child for immoral purposes.