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PEOPLE v. SORNA

Docket No. 77-2549.

88 Mich. App. 351 (1979)

276 N.W.2d 892

PEOPLE v. SORNA

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided February 5, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, L. Brooks Patterson, Prosecuting Attorney, Robert C. Williams, Chief Appellate Counsel, and Lawrence J. Bunting, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Glazer & Cotton, for defendant on appeal.

Before: ALLEN, P.J., and V.J. BRENNAN and M.F. CAVANAGH, JJ.

M.F. CAVANAGH, J.

Defendant was charged with armed robbery, MCL 750.529; MSA 28.797. Upon the filing of the required notice, defendant interposed a defense of insanity. Defendant petitioned for and was granted the appointment of an independent psychiatrist to evaluate his insanity, pursuant to MCL 768.20a; MSA 28.1043(1). The prosecutor also requested appointment of a psychiatrist to evaluate the defendant on behalf of the people, also on the authority of this statute...

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