People v. Fisher

I have signed without qualification Justice Cavanagh’s dissenting opinion.

I write separately to respond to some of the discussion of case law in the majority opinion, and to express my dismay that the Court would speak so definitively, although the prosecutor has not, as "directed” by this Court’s order granting leave to appeal, been "specific” in identifying the testimony and documents he contends should be admitted into evidence on retrial.1

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Charles Ray Fisher was convicted at two jury trials of first-degree murder2 of his wife, Ella Maria Fisher. Following the first conviction, the trial…