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STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS


PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v DAVID DUDLEY TAYLOR, Defendant-Appellant.

UNPUBLISHED June 26, 2001

No. 221172 Huron Circuit Court LC No. 99-004050-FH

Before: Sawyer, P.J., and Griffin and O'Connell, JJ. PER CURIAM. Defendant appeals as of right from his conviction, following a jury trial, of first-degree home invasion, MCL 750.110a(2)(b); MSA 28.305(a)(2)(b). The trial court sentenced defendant to a term of seven to twenty years' imprisonment. We affirm. According to the complainants, in the early morning hours of January 22, 1999, the victims were awakened when defendant and William Brian O'Connor1 broke into the home they shared with their three young children. During the ensuing moments both the husband and wife were brutally attacked, and the wife was sexually assaulted by O'Connor. After the couple's daughter ran for help, the wife managed to retrieve an unloaded firearm from the attic in an attempt to ward off their attackers.2 When police arrived moments later, it took repeated attempts by two uniformed officers to pull defendant off of the husband, who he was savagely attacking. Defendant first argues that the trial court denied him of his constitutional right to confrontation by improperly limiting his cross-examination of the prosecution's key witnesses. See US Const, Am VI; Const 1963, art 1,

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