In the Matter of Lafferty

28 Mich. App. 654 (1970)

185 N.W.2d 189

IN THE MATTER OF LAFFERTY

Docket Nos. 8952-8956.

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided December 9, 1970.

Henrietta E. Rosenthal, for the judge of Recorder's Court of Detroit.

Lafferty, Reosti, Jabara, Papakhian, James, Strickgold & Smith and Goodman, Eden, Robb, Millender, Goodman & Bedrosian (Gage, Burgess & Knox, of counsel), for defendants on appeal.

Amicus curiae: Metropolitan Detroit Branch, American Civil Liberties Union, by James K. Robinson.

Before: V.J. BRENNAN, P.J., and LEVIN and PETERSON,[*] JJ.

The exercise by a trial judge of his summary power to…