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· 3/11/1991

People v. Berkey

Citations

  • 467 N.W.2d 6
  • 437 Mich. 40

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that a seven-part test for determining the admissibility of sound recordings “does not appear in the Michigan Rules of Evidence” and thus is “necessarily controlled by this Court’s 1978 adoption of the rules”
  • where victim recorded conversations with ex-husband shortly before he successfully paid another to kill her, the tapes were authenticated under Rule 901 merely by the identification of the voices alone
  • where victim recorded conversations with ex-husband shortly before he successfully paid another to kill her, the tapes were authenticated under Rule 901 merely by the identification of the voices alone

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Judges: Levin, Cavanagh, Brickley, Boyle, Riley, Griffin, Mallett

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