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People v. Stevenson

Citations

  • 331 N.W.2d 143
  • 416 Mich. 383

How courts have described this case

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

  • “The key is the importance of the rights concerned and their effect on the defendant, not whether those rights can be characterized as merely evidentiary or procedural.”
  • “Of course, abolition of the rule would not reheve the prosecution of its duty to prove all of the elements of the crime, including proximate causation, beyond a reasonable doubt.”
  • `No repose or statute of limitations is available for murder in this state.'
  • abrogation of common-law \year and a day\ rule
  • abrogation of common-law “year and a day” rule

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Judges: Coleman, Fitzgerald, Kavanagh, Levin, Riley, Ryan, Williams

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