Legal Opinion

Solomon v. Shuell

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided July 3, 1990No. 82658, (Calendar No. 1)PublishedCited by 53 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtArcher, J.

We granted leave to appeal in order to consider two principal questions. The first question is whether four police reports were properly admitted into evidence under either MRE 803(6), the business records exception to the hearsay rule, or MRE 803(8), the public records hearsay exception. The second question is whether the jury was properly instructed on the so-called rescue doctrine. We would hold that the police reports were improperly admitted into evidence and that the jury was improperly instructed on the rescue doctrine. We therefore would reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeals…

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