PEOPLE v. WASHINGTON

Docket No. 44702.

100 Mich. App. 628 (1980)

300 N.W.2d 347

PEOPLE v. WASHINGTON

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided October 8, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, Ward S. Hamlin, Jr., Prosecuting Attorney, and Leonard J. Malinowski, Assistant Attorney General, for the people.

Nora J. Pasman, Assistant State Appellate Defender, for defendant on appeal.

Before: M.F. CAVANAGH, P.J., and D.E. HOLBROOK, JR., and J.H. PIERCEY, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

Defendant, James A. Washington, was found guilty by a jury of first-degree premeditated murder, MCL 750.316; MSA 28.548. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and appeals by right.

The defendant has raised four issues on appeal. He first contends that the prosecutor improperly questioned witnesses and commented in closing argument on the defendant's silence in the face of an accusatory statement.

The tacit admission rule, which permits...

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