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PEOPLE v. HAMILTON

Docket No. 67, Calendar No. 47,840.

359 Mich. 410 (1960)

102 N.W.2d 738

PEOPLE v. HAMILTON.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Rehearing denied June 7, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul L. Adams, Attorney General, Samuel J. Torina, Solicitor General, Samuel H. Olsen, Prosecuting Attorney, and Samuel Brezner, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Albert Summer and Ernest E. Ostrow, for defendant.

BLACK, J.

"The aim of the requirement of due process is not to exclude presumptively false evidence, but to prevent fundamental unfairness in the use of evidence whether true or false." Lisenba v. California, 314 U.S. 219, 236 (62 S.Ct. 280, 86 L ed 166), quoted in Blackburn v. Alabama, 361 U.S. 199 (80 S.Ct. 274, 280, 4 L ed 2d 242, 248).

I hold that admission in evidence...

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