Category: youth justice
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Michigan Organizations Call On Supreme Court to End Extreme Sentences for Youth
Excessive Minimum Sentences Sentences for Adolescents Are Cruel, Unusual LANSING: Michigan Criminal Justice and Public Safety organizations today thanked the Supreme Court for hearing People v. Eads, (MSC Docket No. 168205). In 1992, Mr. James Eads was convicted of second-degree murder and felony-firearm for crimes he committed when he was 16 years old and was…