PEOPLE v. STEVENS

Docket No. 212661.

599 N.W.2d 789 (1999)

236 Mich. App. 294

PEOPLE of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. James Michael STEVENS, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided June 22, 1999, at 9:00 a.m.

Released for Publication October 1, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennifer M. Granholm, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, Michael D. Thomas, Prosecuting Attorney, and Janet M. Boes, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

George C. Bush, Saginaw, for the defendant.

Elwood Brown, John D. O'Hair, Timothy A. Baughman, and Jeffrey Caminsky, amicus curiae, for Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan.

Before GRIBBS, P.J., and MICHAEL J. KELLY and HOOD, JJ.


MICHAEL J. KELLY, J.

The prosecution appeals by leave granted the April 14, 1997, order of the trial court allowing the prosecution to use statements made by defendant during plea negotiations for rebuttal purposes only and not in the prosecution's case in chief. We affirm.

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