United States Sixth Circuit

Trial court's admission of a co-defendant's custodial statement was contrary to Supreme Court cases, and error was not harmless because the statement indicates that petitioner possessed the requisite malice to be guilty of second-degree murder.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/06/2003
• Decided 07/28/2003
• Published 07/28/2003

Judges

• Before:  SUHRHEINRICH and GILMAN, Circuit Judges;  CARR, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Laura Graves Moody (argued and briefed), Office of the Attorney General, Lansing, MI, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Corbett E. O'Meara (argued and briefed), O'Meara & O'Meara, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI, for Appellee.