PEOPLE v. CIPRIANO

Docket Nos. 77682, 77683, 78035, 78446, (Calendar Nos. 2-4).

431 Mich. 315 (1988)

429 N.W.2d 781

PEOPLE v. CIPRIANO PEOPLE v. DEAN PEOPLE v. HARRISON

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided September 16, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, Norman R. Hayes, Prosecuting Attorney, and Thomas C. Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, for the people in Cipriano.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, John D. O'Hair, Prosecuting Attorney, Timothy A. Baughman, Chief, Criminal Division, Research, Training and Appeals, and Larry L. Roberts, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people in Dean, and Jeffrey Caminsky, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people in Harrison.

William R. Stackpoole for defendant Cipriano.

Hoffa, Chodak & Robiner (by Norman R. Robiner and Robert F. Harrington) for defendant Dean.

State Appellate Defender (by Susan M. Meinberg) for defendant Harrison.


GRIFFIN, J.

Michigan statutory law requires that an arrested person be brought before a magistrate for arraignment "without unnecessary delay." MCL 764.13, 764.26; MSA 28.871(1), 28.885.1 In each of these three cases, consolidated on appeal, we must determine the effect of this statutory requirement upon the admissibility of a confession obtained during a period of prearraignment delay. We hold that "unnecessary delay" prior to arraignment...

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