PEOPLE v. STRONG

Docket No. 60054.

404 Mich. 357 (1978)

273 N.W.2d 70

PEOPLE v. STRONG

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 29, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Michael R. Mueller, Director, Prosecutor's Repeat Offenders Bureau, and Raymond P. Walsh, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

George C. Edwards, III, for defendant.


PER CURIAM:

We are presented with prosecutorial misconduct, in the form of eliciting evidence which the trial judge had already ruled inadmissible. Because the prosecutor's misconduct eviscerated the defense theory we must reverse the defendant's conviction.

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