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PEOPLE v. WATKINS

Docket Nos. 86776, 86806, 87091, (Calendar Nos. 9-11).

438 Mich. 627 (1991)

475 N.W.2d 727

PEOPLE v. WATKINS PEOPLE v. HUNTER PEOPLE v. PHILLIPS

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided September 19, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Gay Secor Hardy, Solicitor General, John D. O'Hair, Prosecuting Attorney, and Timothy A. Baughman, Chief, Research, Training and Appeals, for the people.

Chodak & Robiner (by Norman R. Robiner) for defendant Watkins.

Gerald M. Lorence for defendant Hunter.

Daniel J. Rust for defendant Phillips.

CAVANAGH, C.J.

Two distinct, though interrelated, issues arise in this case: (1) whether the accusatory hearsay statements inculpating the complaining defendants, contained within the codefendant confessions at issue, fall within the "statement against interest" exception of MRE 804(b)(3), and (2) whether the admission of those statements as substantive evidence against the complaining defendants violated their rights &...

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