People v. Roberts

This is a prosecutor’s appeal from an order granting defendant’s motion for a new trial and excluding defendant’s alleged confessional statements.

Defendant Louis Roberts was charged with the crime of murder in the first degree. After being bound over for trial following Ms preliminary examination, defendant moved to quash the information because it was based on certain alleged confessional statements which were admitted at the preliminary examination. From an adverse ruling, defendant sought and obtained leave to appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court, which affirmed by an equally divided vote.…