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People v. Hickman

Citations

  • 684 N.W.2d 267
  • 470 Mich. 602

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  • holding that the right to counsel attaches at or after the initiation of adversarial judicial proceedings and that the protections under the Michigan Constitution are consistent with the Sixth Amendment right to counsel
  • noting that no special justification is necessary to overrule erroneous precedent
  • noting that no special justification is necessary to overrule erroneous precedent
  • a photographic identification procedure was proper when the defendant was in custody on a different matter and adversarial judicial criminal proceedings had yet to commence on the current case
  • a photographic identification procedure was proper when the defendant was in custody on a different matter and adversarial judicial criminal proceedings had yet to commence on the current case
  • “Where there are other indicia of reliability, an initial inability to identify the defendant or a tentative false identification of another person will not invalidate a witness’s identification of the defendant.”

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Judges: Weaver, Taylor, Young, Markman, Corrigan, Cavanagh, Kelly

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