CASE PREVIEW · Michigan Court of Appeals
People v Watson
Bench-trial judge's clarifying witness questioning, judicial bias, expert qualification in CSC-II case
Decided
The citation
People v Watson, unpublished per curiam opinion of the Court of Appeals, issued October 20, 2026 (Docket No. 372933), pp 3, 6, 8
From the case summary
In July 2019, the six-year-old victim spent two weeks at her grandmother's home, where defendant, her uncle, also lived. She later tested positive for gonorrhea; several other adults tested negative, but defendant tested positive. About a year later she disclosed that something happened with defendant,…
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