PEOPLE v. GONYEA

Docket No. 57379.

126 Mich. App. 177 (1983)

337 N.W.2d 325

PEOPLE v. GONYEA

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided June 6, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, Theodore O. Johnson, Prosecuting Attorney, and Michael A. Nickerson, Assistant Attorney General, for the people.

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

Before: R.B. BURNS, P.J., and MacKENZIE and L.C. ROOT, JJ.


MacKENZIE, J.

After a jury trial, defendant was convicted of second-degree murder, MCL 750.317; MSA 28.549. Defendant was sentenced to imprisonment for life and appeals by right.

Defendant testified at trial. Defendant argues that the trial judge erred by permitting him to be impeached by a prior inconsistent statement made to the police. It was not disputed that the statement would have been inadmissible as substantive evidence because it was obtained in...

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