PEOPLE v. GONZALES

Docket No. 67765, (Calendar No. 3).

415 Mich. 615 (1982)

329 N.W.2d 743

PEOPLE v. GONZALES

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 23, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, L. Brooks Patterson, Prosecuting Attorney, Robert C. Williams, Chief Appellate Counsel, and Geoffrey H. Nickol, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Curtis G. Rundell, II, P.C., for the defendant.

Amicus Curiae:

Terence R. Flanagan for the State Appellate Defender and The Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan.


KAVANAGH, J.

Defendant Salvadore Gonzales and John Duncan Wallach were charged with the first-degree murder of Elmer Evans.1 Gonzales and Wallach were tried separately. Following a jury trial defendant was found guilty as charged and sentenced to a mandatory term of life imprisonment. The Court of Appeals reversed his conviction, holding that the trial court erred in admitting the testimony of a witness whose memory had been hypnotically...

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