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It happened in a Detroit alley in 1967.Detroiter John Hall and an accomplice beat a man who later died of his injuries.John Hall was convicted of…
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In the 1990s, Michigan took a tough stand against teens under 18 convicted of violent crimes. Prosecutors in Michigan started locking more of them up for…
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With one landmark ruling in 2012, the United States Supreme Court made it clear: mandatory sentences of life without the possibility of parole for…
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Earlier this year, the United States Supreme Court handed down a directive saying that all prisoners sentenced to life without parole for crimes committed…
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Four years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional to sentence people younger than 18 to mandatory life without parole. And just about…
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After 41 years in prison, Detroit man is first, and so far only, juvenile lifer to get second chanceWayne County has more than 150 juvenile lifers, by far the most in the state. As of today, only one of them – and, in fact, the only person among the more…
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Wayne County has more than 150 juveniles serving mandatory life-without-parole prison sentences.That’s by far the most in the state. And because of recent…
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The 2012 Supreme Court decision in Miller v. Alabama held that mandatory sentences of life without parole for juveniles were unconstitutional. The court’s…
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In his office in downtown Grand Rapids, Kent County prosecutor Bill Forsyth has stacks of boxes up against a long wall. They’re labeled and stuffed with…
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Michigan prosecutors have come under national scrutiny for what critics have argued is an effort to ignore, or at least slowly comply with, the recent…