PEOPLE v. WILSON

Docket No. 146480. Calendar No. 8.

852 N.W.2d 134 (2014)

496 Mich. 91

PEOPLE v. WILSON.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 18, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill Schuette , Attorney General, Aaron D. Lindstrom , Solicitor General, Eric J. Smith , Prosecuting Attorney, and Joshua D. Abbott, Chief Appellate Attorney, for the people.

State Appellate Defender (by Peter Jon Van Hoek ), for defendant.

Jessica R. Cooper , Thomas R. Grden , and Danielle Walton , Pontiac for the Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan.


McCORMACK, J.

As this case implicates more than one somewhat complex legal doctrine, it may be useful first to state the practical question we confront in as plain English as possible: Can a defendant whose conviction for felony murder has been reversed on appeal be retried for that charge when he was also acquitted of the only felony that supported it?

As detailed below, this case turns on the protection afforded by the Double Jeopardy Clause of the United...

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