PEOPLE v. TARAVELLA

Docket No. 72567.

133 Mich. App. 515 (1984)

350 N.W.2d 780

PEOPLE v. TARAVELLA

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided April 2, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, George N. Parris, Prosecuting Attorney, Don L. Milbourn, Chief Appellate Lawyer, and Robert John Berlin, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Kevin R. Armstrong, for defendant on appeal.

Before: ALLEN, P.J., and V.J. BRENNAN and N.J. KAUFMAN, JJ.


ALLEN, P.J.

We are asked to determine whether the Michigan statute proscribing the malicious use of telephone and telegraph services, MCL 750.540e; MSA 28.808(5), is unconstitutionally overbroad and vague. The question presented is of first impression and comes to us on the following facts.

On September 8, 1980, defendant was charged in the 37th District Court with unlawfully making obscene or harassing telephone calls, contrary to MCL 750.540e; MSA 28.808...

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