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PEOPLE v. GOLOCHOWICZ

Docket No. 62949.

413 Mich. 298 (1982)

319 N.W.2d 518

PEOPLE v. GOLOCHOWICZ

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided May 17, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Brooks Patterson, Prosecuting Attorney, Robert C. Williams, Chief Appellate Counsel, and Michael J. Modelski, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Faintuck, Shwedel, Wolfram, McDonald & Zipser (by William G. Wolfram) for defendant.

RYAN, J.

We address once again an area of the law of evidence with which the bench and bar appear to have continuing difficulty: the so-called similar-acts rule.1

Defendant was convicted by a jury on May 6, 1977, of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. The Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction in a published opinion,2 prompting the defendant to file a request for review.

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