PEOPLE v. CONTE

Docket Nos. 66858, 67351, 68192, 68193, 69664, 71241. (Calendar Nos. 5-9).

421 Mich. 704 (1984)

365 N.W.2d 648

PEOPLE v. CONTE. PEOPLE v. MEAKER. PEOPLE v. BRADLEY. PEOPLE v. NORMAN. PEOPLE v. COOPER.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 28, 1984.

Released March 19, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, L. Brooks Patterson, Prosecuting Attorney, Robert C. Williams, Chief Appellate Counsel, and Thomas S. Richards, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people in Conte.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, John D. O'Hair, Prosecuting Attorney, Edward Reilly Wilson, Deputy Chief, Civil and Appeals, and Robert J. Sheiko, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people in Meaker.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Susan Lee Dobrich, Prosecuting Attorney, for the people in Bradley.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, John D. O'Hair, Prosecuting Attorney, Edward Reilly Wilson, Deputy Chief, Civil and Appeals, and Larry L. Roberts, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people in Norman.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, Cris Vanoosterum, Prosecuting Attorney, and Leonard J. Malinowski, Assistant Attorney General, for the people in Cooper.

Gerald Hale Ladue for defendant Conte.

Lawrence R. Greene for defendant Meaker.

State Appellate Defender (by Richard B. Ginsberg) for defendant Bradley.

McLain & Winters (by Wm. Douglas Winters and Christina B. Buoye) for defendant Norman.

Donald G. Jennings, P.C. (by Mark A. Otto), for defendant Cooper.


Released March 19, 1985. Rehearing denied in Norman, 422 Mich. 1202.

WILLIAMS, C.J.

I. INTRODUCTION

We granted leave to appeal in these five cases limited to the issue whether a defendant's inculpatory statement is inadmissible per se if induced by a law enforcement official's promise of leniency. 417 Mich. 1036, 1037, 1038, 1040 (1983). In People v Jones, 416 Mich. 354...

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