PEOPLE v. TERRYES JOHNSON

Docket No. 62000.

122 Mich. App. 172 (1982)

333 N.W.2d 32

PEOPLE v. TERRYES JOHNSON

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided December 20, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Alvin C. Sallen, for defendant.

Before: D.C. RILEY, P.J., and N.J. KAUFMAN and D.F. WALSH, JJ.


D.C. RILEY, P.J.

The facts of this case are adequately set forth in Judge WALSH'S opinion.

We are in agreement with Judge WALSH'S analysis of defendant's challenge to the adequacy of the court's jury instructions and therefore adopt it as our own. However, we find that the trial court erred in admitting evidence of defendant's prior convictions for attempted breaking and entering.

Under proper circumstances, MRE 609 allows the introduction of evidence...

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