People v. Dendel

Defendant, an insulin-dependent diabetic, was convicted of second-degree murder for injecting the victim, her live-in partner, with a lethal dose of insulin. The Court of Appeals reversed her conviction and remanded for a new trial after concluding that defense counsel was ineffective for failing to produce an expert to refute the testimony of the prosecution’s experts that the victim died from an insulin overdose. We reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeals and *117remand to the Court of Appeals to consider the remaining issues presented by the parties on appeal.1 Defense counsel was not…