The Michigan Supreme Court held that police owe a duty to innocent passengers in fleeing vehicles, but not to passengers who participate in or encourage the flight; because the passengers’ status was unresolved, that issue did not support summary disposition.
Michigan Supreme Court, 2000
Published opinions from 2000. The case name opens the case page.
2000 opinions
The Court held that the evidence, viewed in the prosecution’s favor, was sufficient for a rational jury to find common-law arson and felony murder, and it vacated the Court of Appeals judgment and reinstated the felony-murder convictions.
The Court held that termination is mandatory once a statutory ground is proved by clear and convincing evidence, unless the court finds from the whole record that termination is clearly not in the child's best interests; the parent has no burden to produce best-interest evidence.