PEOPLE v. LEVERETTE

Docket No. 77-2364.

84 Mich. App. 268 (1978)

269 N.W.2d 559

PEOPLE v. LEVERETTE

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided June 20, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Edward R. Wilson, Principal Attorney, Appeals, and Rita Chastang, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Kenneth Lerner, for defendant on appeal.

Before: T.M. BURNS, P.J., and N.J. KAUFMAN and BASHARA, JJ.


N.J. KAUFMAN, J.

The facts are well-stated in the dissenting opinion. We concur in the results reached by the dissenting opinion except as to that portion dealing with the prosecutor's remarks in closing argument. During closing argument, the following colloquy occurred:

"[The prosecutor]: You heard the Defendant wasn't working, but yet he was going to the track. * * * It's a reasonable inference that the money that he was living on was coming from...

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