People v. Morris

Plaintiff appeals as of right from dismissal of the prosecution against defendant ordered by a three-judge circuit court panel on May 20, 1976.

Defendant was originally convicted of first-degree murder on April 12, 1972. That conviction was reversed by this Court in an unpublished opinion, No. 14273, issued on December 4, 1974, due to insufficient evidence of first-degree murder and the improper exclusion of evidence offered by defendant. That opinion also admonished the trial court to exclude all testimony relating to polygraph examinations in any new trial. Defendant’s second trial ended in…