PEOPLE v. PIPES

Docket Nos. 129152, 129154.

715 N.W.2d 290 (2006)

475 Mich. 267

PEOPLE of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Cedric PIPES, Defendant-Appellee. People of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Julian Dale Key, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

June 14, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. Cox, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, Kym L. Worthy, Prosecuting Attorney, Timothy A. Baughman, Chief of Research, Training, and Appeals, and Jeffrey Caminsky, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Detroit, for the people.

Daniel J. Rust, Detroit, for Cedric Pipes.

Jonathan B.D. Simon, Detroit, for Julian D. Key.


Opinion

YOUNG, J.

Defendants were convicted of first-degree premeditated murder following a joint trial before one jury. The Court of Appeals reversed defendants' convictions on the bases that the admission of each codefendant's statements to the police against the other was a violation of Bruton v. United States,1 and that the error was not harmless. In Bruton, the United States Supreme Court held that a defendant...

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