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PEOPLE v. PETRELLA

Docket Nos. 71556, 73731. (Calendar Nos. 27, 28).

424 Mich. 221 (1985)

380 N.W.2d 11

PEOPLE v. PETRELLA PEOPLE v. SIMPSON

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 30, 1985.

Released January 10, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, Peter D. Houk, Prosecuting Attorney, and Robert B. Ebersole, Chief Appellate Attorney, for the people in Petrella.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, Fred R. Hunter, III, Prosecuting Attorney, and Michael A. Nickerson, Assistant Attorney General, for the people in Simpson.

State Appellate Defender (by Karla K. Goodman) for defendant Petrella.

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

RYAN, J.

In these consolidated cases, we consider the appellant's claim that the term "mental anguish," as included in the definition of "personal injury" in the criminal sexual conduct (CSC) statute, MCL 750.520a(j); MSA 28.788(1)(j),1 is unconstitutionally vague.2

In addition, both cases present the question whether there was sufficient evidence of mental...

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