PEOPLE v. PENA

Docket No. 76.

3 Mich. App. 26 (1966)

141 N.W.2d 677

PEOPLE v. PENA.

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Application for leave to appeal filed April 19, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, Robert B. Currie, Prosecuting Attorney, and Bruce J. Scorsone, Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

O'Keefe, Braun, Kendrick & Finkbeiner (Larry C. Carl, of counsel), for defendant.


Application for leave to appeal filed in Supreme Court April 19, 1968.

McGREGOR, J.

Defendant Pena appeals his conviction by a circuit court jury of the crime of selling narcotic drugs as a nonlicensee.1 He was subsequently sentenced to prison for a term of 20 to 25 years.

The defendant contends that he was deprived of a fair trial because the assistant prosecuting attorney sent the following letter to each of the defendant...

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