People v. Feezel

Summary

The Michigan Supreme Court held that evidence of the victim's extreme intoxication was relevant to whether the victim's conduct was a superseding cause of the accident and death, and that excluding the evidence was prejudicial enough to require reversal. The Court also held that 11-carboxy-THC is not a schedule 1 controlled substance under the applicable statutory scheme, so the related conviction could not stand, and it overruled contrary precedent to that extent. Justice Young, concurring in part and dissenting in part, would have granted a new trial but would not have reached or overruled the statutory precedent; Justice Weaver separately concurred.