PEOPLE v. BROCATO

Docket No. 3,590.

17 Mich. App. 277 (1969)

169 N.W.2d 483

PEOPLE v. BROCATO

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Rehearing denied June 19, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, Donald A. Burge, Prosecuting Attorney, and H. Michael Dwan, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Charles C. Wickett and Victor E. Bucknell (Ralph E. Helper, of counsel), for defendant.

Amicus Curiae: American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan by Norton J. Cohen and Erwin Ellman, General Counsel.

BEFORE: R.B. BURNS, P.J., and J.H. GILLIS and CORKIN, JJ.


J.H. GILLIS, J.

This is an appeal from a conviction of taking indecent liberties with a female under the age of 16.1 Seventeen persons, including defendant, were separately charged with crimes upon the complaint of a 14-year-old girl, alleging either statutory rape or other sexual offenses. These cases were of great public interest in Kalamazoo, not only because of the nature of the charges...

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