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Court of Appeals overturns armed robbery conviction over confrontation clause

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An appeal panel last Thursday in a 3-0 decision reversed the 2019 jury conviction of Joe Wesley Straws III. The judges say in the 10-page opinion that Detective Sgt. Robert Gudenau should not have been allowed to repeat the statements of two key witnesses. Straws was convicted of armed robbery, felony firearm possession and felon in possession of a firearm.

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Court of Appeals overturns armed robbery conviction over confrontation clause

The state Court of Appeals last week overturned the armed robbery conviction of a man in the armed robbery of a Roseville appliance store because a police detective was allowed to testify for two witnesses. An appeal panel last Thursday in a 3-0 decision reversed the 2019 jury conviction of Joe Wesley Straws III in Macomb County Circuit Court in the 2016 robbery of the owner of A & R Appliance at the store on Groesbeck Highway and Common Road. R…

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