PEOPLE v. CRESS

Docket No. 225855.

645 N.W.2d 669 (2002)

250 Mich. App. 110

PEOPLE of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Thomas David CRESS, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided February 26, 2002, at 9:05 a.m.

Released for Publication May 31, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennifer M. Granholm, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, John A. Hallacy, Prosecuting Attorney, and Nancy Mullett, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

State Appellate Defender Office (by David A. Moran), for the defendant on appeal.

Bridget McCormack, Ann Arbor, and Andrea Lyon, Chicago, IL, for amici curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan.

Before: BANDSTRA, C.J., and FITZGERALD and GAGE, JJ.


GAGE, Judge.

Defendant, who in 1985 was convicted of first-degree felony murder, M.C.L. § 750.316, appeals by leave granted from the trial court's order denying his motion for a new trial. We reverse and remand.

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The victim in this case is Patricia Rosansky, a seventeen-year-old girl who was murdered in early 1983. To summarize the voluminous record generated during defendant's twenty-six-day jury...

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