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PEOPLE v. SMITH

Docket No. 56620, (Calendar No. 1).

405 Mich. 418 (1979)

275 N.W.2d 466

PEOPLE v. SMITH

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided February 5, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, James J. Gregart, Prosecuting Attorney, and Stephen M. Wheeler, Chief of Appellate Division, for the people.

DeVries & Lamb, P.C., for defendant.

RYAN, J.

On February 5, 1954, defendant Louis Maurice Smith, then 18 years of age, was committed to the Kalamazoo State Hospital following a series of relatively minor acts of sexual misconduct such as indecent exposure, window peeping and stealing articles of feminine apparel. Eight months after defendant's commitment a student nurse was found raped and strangled to death in the basement of the hospital. That same day, November 5, 1954, defendant was arrested and...

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