“In this delinquency proceeding, a jury found the juvenile respondent, MNB, guilty of misdemeanor assault and battery, MCL 750.81(1). The trial court entered an order of disposition and placed MNB on probation for six months. MNB now appeals by right. We reverse and remand.”
From the conclusion: “For the reasons discussed, Miller and its progeny have rendered Eads’s term-of-years sentence invalid under both the Michigan Constitution and our state’s proportionality requirement. He is entitled to be resentenced in a manner that comports with this jurisprudence and duly accounts for his youth and its attendant characteristics at the time he…
In this amicus brief (and a companion brief filed in Michigan v. Andrew Czarnecki), Fair and Just Prosecution urges the Michigan Supreme Court to extend 19- and 20-year olds its finding that life without parole sentences for young people violate state and federal constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
