PEOPLE v. JENDRZEJEWSKI

Docket No. 103374, Calendar No. 13.

566 N.W.2d 530 (1997)

455 Mich. 495

PEOPLE of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Mark Louis JENDRZEJEWSKI, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 29, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, Wayne M. Groat, Prosecuting Attorney, and J. Ronald Kaplansky, Assistant Attorney General, Lansing, for the People.

State Appellate Defender by Corinne Beckwith Yates, Detroit, for Defendant-Appellee.

Paul J. Denenfeld Detroit, amici curiae, for the American Civil Liberties Union Fund of Michigan.

Michael D. Thomas, President, John D. O'Hair, Prosecuting Attorney, Timothy A. Baughman, Chief, Research, Training and Appeals, and Janice M. Joyce Bartee, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Detroit, for the Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan.


OPINION

BOYLE, Justice.

The Court of Appeals reversed the defendant's conviction of first-degree murder, finding that, under the totality of the circumstances, as a result of pretrial publicity reflected in the number of jurors successfully challenged for cause, the defendant was denied a fair trial before impartial jurors. We granted leave to appeal to decide if the Court of Appeals erred in finding that...

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