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ACLU Fights No-parole Law For Juveniles
ANN ARBOR (WWJ) – The ACLU is taking aim this week at a Michigan law that allows juvenile offenders to be locked up for life without parole. ACLU Attorney Deborah La Belle says the case involves nine...
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Ruling To Come On Parole Consideration For Convicted Juveniles
ANN ARBOR (WWJ) – A federal judge says he’ll rule in a few weeks on the American Civil Liberties Union’s challenge to a Michigan law that bars parole for juveniles convicted of certain murders. Judge...
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3 Detroit Teens To Be Tried As Adults In Violent Crimes
DETROIT (WWJ) – The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office has charged two 15-year-old boys as adults on charges that carry up to life in prison for the alleged carjacking and shooting injury of a 6-year-old...
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Court Offers Hope To State’s 358 Juvenile Lifers
GRAND RAPIDS (WWJ/AP) - Michigan inmates serving mandatory life sentences without parole for crimes they committed as minors may have a chance to pursue freedom rather than spend the rest of their...
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Groups Cite Youth Confinement In 7 Mich. Counties
DETROIT (AP) - Two prisoner rights advocacy groups that criticize the use of solitary confinement for juveniles say they’ve uncovered at least 15 people in seven Michigan counties who’ve undergone the...
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Mich. Court Limits Supreme Court Juvenile Lifer Ruling
LANSING (AP) - The Michigan appeals court has ruled to limit the use of a landmark court decision that ends mandatory no-parole sentences for juveniles convicted of murder. The state court in a...
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Judge Opens Door For Michigan Juvenile Lifers
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) – All Michigan inmates serving no-parole sentences for murder committed as juveniles are entitled to a fair and meaningful possibility of release, a federal judge ruled Wednesday,...
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Mich. AG Casts Doubt On Impact Of Juvenile Parole Case
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette believes a judge’s recent opinion on no-parole sentences for juveniles covers only five prisoners and is not a sweeping decision affecting...
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Sentenced To Life At 16, Woman Hopes For Freedom
By Adam Geller, AP National Writer YPSILANTI (AP) – More than 21 years after she went to prison, Barbara Hernandez enters the cinderblock visitation chamber at the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional...
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Life Sentence Overturned For Man In Sub Shop Abduction, Murder
EASTPOINTE (WWJ/AP) - A mandatory no-parole life sentence has been overturned in the case of a young man convicted in the August 2009 murder of Matt Landry. The Michigan appeals court ruled Ihab...
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Judge Orders Parole Hearings For Mich. Juvenile Lifers
By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) – A judge signed a sweeping order Tuesday for hundreds of Michigan prisoners serving mandatory no-parole sentences, directing the state to give them an...
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No New Hearings For Michigan Juvenile Lifers
DETROIT (AP) – Michigan’s Supreme Court says more than 350 inmates serving no-parole sentences for murder committed when they were teenagers won’t get new hearings that could have led to their release....
View ArticleDeal Reached To Treat 17-Year-Old Offenders As Juveniles
LANSING, Mich. (CBS DETROIT/ AP) — A deal has been reached by Michigan lawmakers to no longer automatically treat 17-year-old criminal defendants as adults. Michigan is among just four states whose...
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