PEOPLE v. HOPSON

Docket No. 102640.

178 Mich. App. 406 (1989)

444 N.W.2d 167

PEOPLE v. HOPSON

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided July 17, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, John D. O'Hair, Prosecuting Attorney, Timothy A. Baughman, Chief of the Criminal Division, Research, Training and Appeals, and Mary Sue Czarnecki, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

John R. Minock, for defendant on appeal.

Before: HOOD, P.J., and BEASLEY and SHEPHERD, JJ.


SHEPHERD, J.

In this matter we are called upon to apply the recent holding of our Supreme Court that a trial judge may not impose a sentence of a long term of years in order to make certain that a defendant never becomes eligible for parole in those cases where the Legislature has provided for life with the possibility of parole as a sentencing option.

Following a bench trial, defendant was convicted of second-degree murder, MCL 750.317; MSA 28.549. Defendant...

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