Joslin v. 14th District Judge

Following a long and tortuous procedural path involving a district court, a circuit court, various panels of the Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court, the case at bar presents itself for our resolution. While retracing that circuitous route might prove interesting to scholars of legal procedure, we choose to dispense as much as possible with so fruitless an undertaking and proceed *92instead to the more significant substantive matters involved.

I

The record reflects that on August 1, 1974, an assistant prosecutor in Washtenaw County, acting on the request of an Ypsilanti police officer,…