Court Opinion

ID: 9721480
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 09:00:24.916829+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:26.233126
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Black, J.
(dissenting). I agree with the first paragraph of the Court’s opinion, that only. It is re-quoted here for the convenience of the reader:
“There is not much doubt that Michael Maurice Robinson shot and killed William Finnk during the holdup of Mr. Finnk’s jewelry store. He was tried for the crime and convicted by the jury of first-degree murder and the evidence in the record is ample to sustain the conviction.”
I regard Judge Quinn’s opinion for Division 1 (23 Mich App 397) as the one which analyzes best the proof of this latest cold-blooded murder of another hapless shopkeeper, and as the preferred choice of successive appellate views of the questions that were raised on appeal to the Court of Appeals.
My vote to affirm is cast, and I therefore dissent.
T. E. Brennan, J., concurred with Black, J.
Adams, J., concurred in the result.