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PEOPLE v. WELCH

Docket No. 196763.

574 N.W.2d 682 (1997)

226 Mich. App. 461

PEOPLE of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Martell WELCH, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided November 21, 1997, at 9:00 a.m.

Released for Publication March 10, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, John D. O'Hair, Prosecuting Attorney, and Timothy A. Baughman, Chief of Research, Training, and Appeals, for People.

Carl Ziemba, Detroit, for Defendant-Appellant on appeal.

Before SMOLENSKI, P.J., and FITZGERALD and GAGE, JJ.

SMOLENSKI, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder, M.C.L. § 750.317; M.S.A. § 28.549, and sentenced to sixteen to forty years' imprisonment. Defendant appeals as of right. We affirm.

Defendant's conviction arises out of the drowning death of Deletha Word, who jumped off the MacArthur Bridge at Belle Isle after she had been attacked and repeatedly beaten by defendant...

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