PEOPLE v. VERMEULEN

Docket No. 81558, (Calendar No. 3).

432 Mich. 32 (1989)

438 N.W.2d 36

PEOPLE v. VERMEULEN

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 8, 1989.


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 Division, and Michael J. Modelski, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

John D. Lazar and Lawrence G. Kaluzny for the defendant.


LEVIN, J.

We granted leave to appeal in this case, consolidated on appeal with People v Hamacher, 432 Mich. 157; 438 N.W.2d 43 (1989), to consider the application of the spousal communication privilege set forth in the Revised Judicature Act, § 2162.1 We conclude that the Court of Appeals correctly held that the privilege bars the testimony of the defendant...

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