# People v. Jackson

> Michigan Supreme Court · April 16, 1974 · 391 Mich. 323

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9687906

## Case

- **Full name:** People v. Jackson
- **Court:** Michigan Supreme Court
- **Decided:** April 16, 1974
- **Citations:** 391 Mich. 323; 217 N.W.2d 22; 1974 Mich. LEXIS 139
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Williams
- **Judges:** Coleman, Kavanagh, Swainson, Williams, Levin, Swain-Son, Fitzgerald
- **Cited by:** 243 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Overruled on other grounds by McDougall v. Schanz, 461 Mich. 15 (1999).
- Negative treatments: 2
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9687906

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that “independent of any Federal constitutional mandate, . . . both before and after commencement of the judicial phase of a prosecution, a suspect is entitled to be represented by counsel at a corporeal identification or a photographic identification”
- stating that “independent of any Federal constitutional mandate,. . . both before and after commencement of the judicial phase of a prosecution, a suspect is entitled to be represented by counsel at a corporeal identification or a photographic identification”

## Opinion text

Williams, J.
(concurring). My Brother Levin’s opinion is the right word at the right time, and I sign it without qualification.
Looking ahead with my Brothers T. G. Kavanagh, Swainson and Levin, I must agree that with the exception of conviction for perjury or some like crime there is neither logic nor warrant to introduce a defendant’s or a witness’s past conviction record for the purpose of impeaching his credibility, whatever other reason there may be for such admission.

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Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9687906. Public record. Not legal advice.