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- Title: People State Michigan v. John Rushlow
- Author : Court of Appeals of Michigan
- Release Date : January 08, 1989
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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Defendant was convicted, following a bench trial, of murder in the second degree. MCL 750.317; MSA 28.549. He was thereafter sentenced to serve a term of 75 to 150 years in prison. He now appeals and we affirm. Defendant's conviction arises out of the killing of Kathleen Kingsbury, a topless dancer at Legs Lounge. On the day in question, Kingsbury was working and defendant was a patron at the bar. The killing occurred in what was referred to as the ""record room"" in which a buffet had been set up for the patrons. The record room was separated from the other areas of the bar by a wall and a curtain. A number of people in the establishment heard a scream and a thud, followed by defendant running out of the record room. Some witnesses had seen the victim performing an oral sex act on defendant shortly before the killing and at least one witness saw defendant drop a knife from his hand. Another witness entered the record room after hearing a scream or scuffle in the record room and saw defendant with a knife, stabbing the victim with an upward swing and striking her in the sternum area. According to the autopsy report, the victim had several stab wounds to the chest which penetrated the heart as well as a wound to the left thigh and a wound to the right lower leg. The stab wounds to the heart with the subsequent bleeding were listed as the cause of death. According to the medical examiner, the deceased would have lived seconds to minutes at the most.