PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

Docket No. 64639, (Calendar No. 6).

416 Mich. 25 (1982)

330 N.W.2d 823

PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS PEOPLE v. ANDERSON PEOPLE v. RESPRESS PEOPLE v. JOHNSON

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 L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Edward Reilly Wilson, Deputy Chief, Civil and Appeals, and Timothy C. Scallen, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Charles H. Brown for defendant Williams.

Gerald M. Lorence for defendant Anderson.

Cynthia R. Goldfarb for defendant Respress.

Arthur H. Landau for defendant Johnson.


WILLIAMS, J. (for reversal).

Defendants in this case have called into question the constitutionality of Michigan's "rape shield" law, which is set forth in the margin below. MCL 750.520j; MSA 28.788(10) (also referred to hereinafter as § 520j).1 All four defendants herein were prosecuted on charges of first-degree criminal sexual conduct; all four defendants asserted at trial that...

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