Opinion

People v. Cole

  • 382 Mich. 695
  • 172 N.W.2d 354
  • 1969 Mich. LEXIS 138
Court
Michigan Supreme Court
Filed
Dec 2, 1969
Status
Published
Author
Black
On the bench
Adams, Black, Brennan, Dethmers, Kavanagh, Kelly
Cited by
92 cases

Following Cole, Alaska Supreme Court viewed problem of requisite instruction as a "judicial choice.”

How later courts described this case

  • Following Cole, Alaska Supreme Court viewed problem of requisite instruction as a "judicial choice.”
  • "the purpose of the voir dire examination is to enable the attor neys to elicit such information as to develop a rational basis for the exercise of challenges for cause or peremptory challenges”
  • "the purpose of the voir dire examination is to enable the attor *587 neys to elicit such information as to develop a rational basis for the exercise of challenges for cause or peremptory challenges”
  • "This appeal makes it mandatory that this Court choose between ...”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Black, J.

(concurring in result). Relying upon the rule of Lyles v. United States (1957), 103 US App DC 22 (254 F2d 725), as he does, I concur in the result reached by Justice T. M. Kavanagh.

T. Gr. Kavanagh, J., did not sit.

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