People v. Betts

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the trial judge did not err in calling and questioning res gestae witness after both sides had rested
• holding that, where there were two conflicting versions of the testimony and the trial court did not know which to believe, it was not error in a bench trial for the trial judge to sua sponte call a witness that had been listed but that both parties had declined to call
• permitting trial court to call witness after both parties rested

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Shields
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1993-07-07· cited 34×
• State v. Medeiros
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 1995-12-20· cited 7×
• State v. Parr
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2000-07-07· cited 3×
• M. J. v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2002-11-08· cited 1×
• MJ v. Com.
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2002-11-08

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Fidelity-Baltimore National Bank v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1964-10-12· cited 62×
• People v. Dickerson
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1910-12-30· cited 29×
• People v. Baker
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1952-01-15· cited 17×
• People v. Blake
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1909-07-06· cited 15×
• State Bar Grievance Administrator v. Jaques
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1978-03-31· cited 8×
• People v. Fisher
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1978-12-05· cited 7×
• Jaques v. State Bar Grievance Administrator
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-12· cited 2×
• Smith v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1964-10-12· cited 1×