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People v. Petri

Citations

  • 760 N.W.2d 882
  • 279 Mich. App. 407

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that erroneously admitting a police officer’s testimony under MRE 701 rather than MRE 702 when the officer “would have qualified” as an expert witness was harmless
  • holding that a police detective’s testimony regarding the behavior of child sex abusers was not expert testimony because the detective did not offer “a technical or scientific analysis.”
  • stating that a defendant may not leave it to this Court to search for a factual basis to sustain or reject his position
  • stating that jury instruction are presumed to cure most errors and that jurors are presumed to follow those instructions
  • stating that the defendant “may not leave it to this Court to search for a factual basis to sustain or reject his position”
  • stating that the defendant “may not leave it to this Court to search for a factual basis to sustain or reject his position”

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Judges: Wilder, O'Connell, Whitbeck

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23 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

27 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Other cases named People v. Petri

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