People v. Walls

The prosecutor appeals, by leave granted, a February 20, 1981, order remanding this criminal prosecution to the district court for a new preliminary examination.

Defendant herein was originally charged in Wayne County Circuit Court No. 80-003-906-FY with one count of second-degree criminal sexual conduct, MCL 750.520c; MSA 28.788(3). A preliminary examination was held in district court before Judge Thomas Smith. At the hearing the three-year-old victim of the alleged crime did not testify. Instead, the victim’s mother, Candice Nimens, testified to statements made to her by the victim two days…