PEOPLE v. FIELDS

Docket No. 99806, (Calendar No. 7).

450 Mich. 94 (1995)

PEOPLE v. FIELDS

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided August 22, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, Jon Sahli, Prosecuting Attorney, and J.B. Jenkins, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Patricia S. Slomski for the defendant.

Amicus Curiae:

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, Donald Martin and John D. O'Hair, Prosecuting Attorneys, and Timothy A. Baughman, Chief, Research, Training and Appeals, for the Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan.


BOYLE, J.

In this case we address the propriety of a prosecutor's questions and closing argument directed to defendant's efforts to produce the woman who defendant testified had actually committed the assault against his wife for which defendant was charged and ultimately convicted. Finding no basis for the conclusion that the prosecutor's questions and comments "shifted the burden of proof" to the defendant, we reverse the Court of Appeals decision and remand the...

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