Court Opinion

ID: 9742584
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Date Created: 2023-08-26 21:16:27.076019+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:33.920019
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O’Hara, J.
(concurring in result). I concur in the result reached by Judge Fitzgerald on the ground that at a pretrial conference the defense stipulated clearly and unequivocally that the psychiatrist who conducted the examination at the forensic center to determine the defendant’s competence to stand trial could be called as a witness by the prosecution in the case in chief.
The unchallenged affidavit of defendant’s trial counsel attached to appellee’s brief recites that his agreement to allow the examining psychiatrist to *480testify was part of his trial strategy, that he was aware that the testimony would have been inadmissible had objection been made, and that all of the psychiatrist’s testimony was within the scope of defendant’s pretrial agreement with the special prosecutor who represented the state.
I feel it necessary to write this separate concurrence because of my language in People v Schneider, 39 Mich App 342, 345; 197 NW2d 539, 540 (1972), that the practice of calling the examining psychiatrist of the forensic center as a witness in the case in chief was to be discontinued in the trial courts.
Further, I adhere to my holding in People v Spruytte, 48 Mich App 135; 210 NW2d 155 (1973), that record deficiencies cannot be cured by attaching after-the-fact affidavits to briefs. However, since Spruytte was not released until after the briefs were filed in this case, I do not regard it as binding on me in the case at bar. I concur in affirming the conviction.