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PEOPLE v. FOSTER

Calendar No. 1, Docket No. 50,557.

377 Mich. 233 (1966)

140 N.W.2d 513

PEOPLE v. FOSTER.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 8, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David F. Betz, Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Luke Quinn, Assistant Attorney General, for the people, confessing error and proposing reversal.

Marcus, McCroskey, Libner, Reamon, Williams & Dilley (Jerry S. McCroskey, of counsel), for defendant, acting for American Civil Liberties Union (Michigan Chapter).

BLACK, J.

The primary design of this appeal is that of bringing the Supreme Court of Michigan into line with certain decisions of other courts which, in substance, hold that the trial judge is burdened with duty to supervise the work of court-appointed counsel for an accused so as to "insure reasonable competence" of such counsel. The quotation is taken from the appellant's brief. Prominent examples of the outstate decisions referred to are State v. Selbach...

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