PEOPLE v. LANGWORTHY

Docket Nos. 65320, 65480. (Calendar Nos. 4, 5).

416 Mich. 630 (1982)

331 N.W.2d 171

PEOPLE v. LANGWORTHY PEOPLE v. LUNDY

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 23, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, William F. Delhey, Prosecuting Attorney, and James S. Sexsmith, Senior Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people in Langworthy.

Richard A. Smith for defendant Langworthy.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Edward Reilly Wilson, Deputy Chief, Civil and Appeals, and Frank J. Bernacki, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people in Lundy.

El-Hadi T. Shabazz for defendant Lundy.


FITZGERALD, C.J.

The common ground of these cases is that, at their trials, both defendants attempted to utilize voluntary intoxication as a defense to charges of crimes which Michigan appellate courts previously have held to be general-intent crimes. Both defendants request this Court to expand the category of specific-intent crimes to include the offenses they were convicted of, i.e., first-degree criminal sexual conduct and second-degree murder, in order...

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