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PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

Docket No. 72519, (Calendar No. 7).

422 Mich. 381 (1985)

373 N.W.2d 567

PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided September 4, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, George B. Mullison, Prosecuting Attorney, and Thomas J. Rasdale, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

State Appellate Defender (by Mardi Crawford) for the defendant.

RYAN, J.

The defendant's conviction for first-degree premeditated murder1 was vacated by the Court of Appeals because the prosecution failed to produce evidence, independent of the defendant's confession, of the elements of premeditation and deliberation. The Court found that result to be required by the corpus delicti rule.

We disagree and reverse.

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Defendant was charged with the first-degree murder of his next...

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