juvenile lifers

The bills would also set new minimum and maximum sentences (10 and 60 years) for people under 19. And they would allow for a parole review after ten years served, “where the incapacity of youth must be considered.”

The appeal was rooted in a court ruling that mandatory life without parole for 18-year-olds is unconstitutional because a teenager’s brain is not fully developed. The court rejected the argument that the same should be held true for 21-year-olds and held Michigan’s sentencing law is not “cruel or unusual.”

A new bill package in the state Legislature would prevent anyone under the age of 19 from receiving an automatic life sentence.

Decisions Thursday from the Michigan Supreme Court put new boundaries around life sentences for people convicted of murders committed when they were 18 or younger.

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