(DOWNLOAD) "People State Michigan v. Charles Edward" by Supreme Court of Michigan * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: People State Michigan v. Charles Edward
- Author : Supreme Court of Michigan
- Release Date : January 24, 1987
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
Description
We are asked to review the acceptance by a trial court of the plea of ""guilty but mentally ill"" of a criminal charge where there was less than strict compliance with procedural requirements laid down by statute. In this case, there were two procedural defects. First, although the prosecutor and the trial court had timely actual notice that defendant Blue would assert an insanity-type defense, the formal notice contemplated by the statute was not filed. Second, although it appears that the prosecutor and defense counsel each had a copy of the report of a psychiatric examination ordered by the court, in which the examiner opined that at the time of the alleged offense defendant was neither insane nor mentally ill, the report was not made available to the trial court even though the statute requires court examination prior to acceptance of the plea.