On Thursday, the Michigan Supreme Court struck down automatic, no-parole life sentences for 19- and 20-year-olds convicted of murder.
With Michigan’s Supreme Court ruling, hundreds of people will now be eligible for new sentences.
“It’s the victim’s families that thought they had some certainty, thought this was kind of behind them, and now for a vast majority of them probably have no idea that this is even a possibility,” Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker said.
The ruling is still new to the prosecutor.
“The thing that is most frustrating is, they say, the mind hasn’t developed…,” Becker said. “The right question is, is [the mind] developed enough to know you shouldn’t kill somebody.”…