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PEOPLE v. WESLEY

Docket Nos. 66597, 67161, 67162, 69160, 69195, 69196, 69532, 69533. (Calendar Nos. 15-19).

421 Mich. 375 (1984)

365 N.W.2d 692

PEOPLE v. WESLEY PEOPLE v. TAORMINA PEOPLE v. GERALD PHILLIPS PEOPLE v. PHILLIP PHILLIPS PEOPLE v. THREET PEOPLE v. DOPP

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 28, 1984.

Released February 1, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, Robert E. Weiss, Prosecuting Attorney, and Donald A. Kuebler, Chief, Appellate Division, for the people in Wesley.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, Wesley J. Nykamp, Prosecuting Attorney, and Gregory J. Babbitt, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people in Taormina, Gerald Phillips, and Phillip Phillips.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, Harvey A. Koselka, Prosecuting Attorney, and Michael A. Nickerson, Assistant Attorney General, for the people in Threet and Dopp.

Richard J. Drew for defendant Wesley.

Carl Ziemba for defendant Taormina.

James S. Lawrence (Richard G. Chosid, of counsel) for defendants Phillips.

Graham A. Teague for defendant Threet.

Priscilla Ruesink Laidlaw for defendant Dopp.

Released February 1, 1985. Rehearings denied in Gerald Phillips, Phillip Phillips, and Threet, post, 1202.

BOYLE, J.

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