PEOPLE v. HENDRICKSON

Docket No. 110397, Calendar No. 10.

586 N.W.2d 906 (1998)

459 Mich. 229

PEOPLE of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Charles Emil HENDRICKSON, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 28, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, Gary L. Walker, Prosecuting Attorney, and Terrence E. Dean, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Marquette, MI, for the people.

Lynn M. Jovanovich, Marquette, MI, Mark Peter Stevens, Marquette, MI, and Stuart Friedman, Ann Arbor, MI for the defendant-appellee.

Norm Donker, President, John D. O'Hair, Prosecuting Attorney, and Timothy A. Baughman, Chief, Research, Training and Appeals, Detroit, MI, amicus curiae for Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan.


MARILYN J. KELLY, J.

We granted leave in this case to determine (1) whether independent evidence of a beating was required before a 911 audiotape recording about the beating could be admitted under the present sense impression exception to the rule barring hearsay, and (2) whether photographic evidence depicting the victim's injuries presented independent evidence of the beating.

We find that the photographs of the victim depicting injuries consistent with...

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