PEOPLE v. HAMMOND

Docket No. 55726, (Calendar No. 13).

394 Mich. 627 (1975)

232 N.W.2d 174

PEOPLE v. HAMMOND

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided August 20, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Patricia J. Boyle, Principal Attorney, Research Training and Appeals, and Gerard A. Poehlman, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Carl Ziemba, for defendant on appeal.


T.G. KAVANAGH, C.J.

Defendant was found guilty of armed robbery by a jury and the Court of Appeals affirmed his conviction.

Defendant raises three questions on appeal, one asserting unfair identification procedures and the other two claiming prosecutorial misconduct depriving defendant of a fair trial.

Because we are persuaded that the prosecutor did employ tactics which we have repeatedly held to be unfair, we reverse the conviction and order a new...

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