PEOPLE v. BERKEY

Docket No. 88641.

437 Mich. 40 (1991)

467 N.W.2d 6

PEOPLE v. BERKEY

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 11, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Gay Secor Hardy, Solicitor General, John D. O'Hair, Prosecuting Attorney, and Edward Reilly Wilson, III, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Thomas J. Trenta for the defendant.


PER CURIAM:

This is a murder case in which the trial court admitted into evidence some audiotapes that the victim recorded several months before her death. The tapes contain conversations with the defendant in this case, who was the victim's spouse.

The Court of Appeals reversed the defendant's convictions on the ground that the prosecutor had failed to offer sufficient evidence to authenticate the tapes. However, the Court of Appeals employed the incorrect...

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