People v. Conklin

We granted the people’s application for rehearing in this cause to determine whether our original opinion incorrectly concluded that there was insufficient evidence of premeditation and deliberation, independent of the defendant’s confession, to support defendant’s first-degree murder conviction.

In the original opinion in this matter, the majority reversed the defendant’s first-degree murder conviction and remanded to the trial court for entry of a judgment of conviction on the reduced charge of second-degree murder with an option afforded the prosecutor to retry defendant for first-degree…