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PEOPLE v. HACKETT

Docket No. 111717, Calendar No. 17.

596 N.W.2d 107 (1999)

460 Mich. 202

PEOPLE of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. William Patrick HACKETT, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 29, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennifer M. Granholm, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, Carl J. Marlinga, Prosecuting Attorney, Robert J. Berlin, Chief Appellate Attorney, and Laura Z. Sullivan, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Mount Clemens, for the people.

State Appellate Defender (by Peter Jon Van Hoek), Detroit, for defendant-appellee.

Opinion

WEAVER, C.J.

The evidentiary question posed by this case is whether the trial court's admission of testimony regarding defendant's silence was proper.1 Defendant was convicted of delivery of 50 grams or more but less than 225 grams of cocaine.2 The Court of Appeals reversed defendant's conviction, concluding that, although the admission of the testimony was not constitutional error, it was...

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