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PEOPLE v. WOODS

Docket Nos. 63099, 65263, 65342. (Calendar Nos. 8-10).

416 Mich. 581 (1982)

331 N.W.2d 707

PEOPLE v. WOODS PEOPLE v. TUCKER PEOPLE v. ALEXANDER

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 23, 1982.

Opinion released January 25, 1983.

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 Michael F. Bakaian, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, in Woods; Janice M. Joyce Bartee, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, in Tucker; Timothy A. Baughman, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, in Alexander, for the people.

State Appellate Defender (by Peter Jon Van Hoek) for defendant Woods.

Carl Ziemba for defendant Tucker.

Mogill, Bush, Posner, Cohen & Weiss (by Kenneth M. Mogill) for defendant Alexander.

Rehearing denied 417 Mich. 1113 as to Alexander and Woods. Certiorari denied by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 20, 1983. as to Alexander.

RYAN, J.

We granted leave to appeal in these three cases and consolidated them for oral argument and disposition, primarily to consider the appropriateness of the language of "malice" and "malice aforethought" in the trial courts' murder instructions. Appellants in each of the cases contend that the instructions...

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