PEOPLE v. ATKINS

Docket No. 45188.

96 Mich. App. 672 (1980)

293 N.W.2d 671

PEOPLE v. ATKINS PEOPLE v. WIGGINS

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided April 16, 1980.


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 Anne B. Wetherholt, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for plaintiff.

Bell & Hudson, P.C., for defendant Atkins.

Before: M.F. CAVANAGH, P.J., and M.J. KELLY and D.S. DeWITT, JJ.


M.F. CAVANAGH, P.J.

The prosecution was granted leave to appeal from the two-pronged ruling of the trial court that suppressed a taperecorded telephone conversation between an informant and defendant Wiggins and denied admission of evidence of other crimes allegedly involving the defendants.

Defendants Atkins and Wiggins were arraigned on charges of first-degree murder stemming from the July 13, 1974, murder of one Girard Tolbert. Ronald Moore, the informant...

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