Michigan Court of Appeals August 27, 1973, Docket 14030 (People v. Gunn)

T. M. Burns, J.

The trial court sitting without a jury tried and convicted the defendants of first-degree murder

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and sentenced them to life imprisonment. Defendants moved for a new trial alleging certain prosecution witnesses were subjected to illegal arrests and an illegal search thus rendering their in-court testimony inadmissible as being

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"fruit of the poisonous tree”.