Case ID: mich-app_36/html/0714-03.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

People v. Coates.
    Appeal from Recorder’s Court of Detroit, Joseph E. Maher, J.
    Submitted Division 1 October 11, 1971, at Detroit.
    (Docket No. 10750.)
    Decided October 28, 1971.
    Leave to appeal denied, 386 Mich 783.
    
      Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cabalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Dommick R. Carnovale, Chief, Appellate Department, and Thomas P. Smith, Assistant. Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
    
      Carl Ziemba, for defendant on appeal.
    Before: Levin, P. J., and R. B. Burns and J. H. Gillis, JJ.
   Memorandum Opinion. Defendant appeals his conviction of kidnapping assigning error beeause of: (1) the expression by the prosecutor of his personal opinion of complainant’s credibility, (2) a suggestive pretrial showup and (3) certain objectionable testimony.

The alleged errors were not preserved for appellate review: (1) no objection was made to the prosecutor’s argument, and such argument could have been cured by an appropriate instruction, (2) the defendant was represented by counsel at the showing; no motion to suppress or objection was made at the trial concerning the showup and (3) no objection was made at the trial to the testimony.

Affirmed. 
      
       MOLA § 750.349 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.581).
     
      
      
        People v. Stroble (1971), 31 Mich App 94.
     
      
      
        People v. Rowls (1970), 28 Mich App 190.
     
      
      
        People v. Webb (1968), 13 Mich App 625; People v. Wilson (1969), 20 Mich App 410.