PEOPLE v. ROLLINS

Docket No. 6516.

33 Mich. App. 1 (1971)

189 N.W.2d 716

PEOPLE v. ROLLINS

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Leave to appeal denied August 12, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Dominick R. Carnovale, Chief, Appellate Department, and Leonard Meyers, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Robert F. Mitchell, Jr., for defendant on appeal.

Before: DANHOF, P.J., and McGREGOR and LEVIN, JJ.


LEVIN, J.

The question presented is whether on the facts in this record the admission in evidence at the defendant's pre-Bruton trial of the confessional statement of a nontestifying codefendant was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. We conclude that it was not harmless and grant a new trial.

I.

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