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PEOPLE v. BURTON

Docket No. 59529.

401 Mich. 415 (1977)

258 N.W.2d 58

PEOPLE v. BURTON

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided October 6, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Edward Reilly Wilson, Principal Attorney, Appeals, and Don W. Atkins, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Joel M. Shere for defendant.

PER CURIAM:

On January 28, 1975, the defendant was convicted by a jury of the charge of first-degree murder. MCLA 750.316; MSA 28.548. He was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment.

Defendant thereafter appealed to the Court of Appeals. That Court, in a published per curiam opinion, reversed the defendant's conviction because of a prosecutorial inquiry upon cross-examination of the defendant as to whether or...

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