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PEOPLE v. VALENTIN

Docket No. 108160, Calendar No. 5.

577 N.W.2d 73 (1998)

PEOPLE of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Anthony VALENTIN, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided April 14, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, John D.

O'Hair, Prosecuting Attorney, Timothy A. Baughman, Chief of Research, Training, and Appeals, and Douglas P. Dwyer, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for People.

David Newman, West Bloomfield, for defendant-appellee.

Thomas M. Harp and William E. Ladd, Legal Aid and Defender Association of Detroit, Detroit, amicus curiae, for Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan.

OPINION

BOYLE, Justice.

We granted leave to determine whether M.C.L. § 771.7(1); M.S.A. § 28.1137(1) and MCR 6.933(B)(1) require a trial court to sentence a juvenile defendant as to whom juvenile court jurisdiction was automatically waived, and who originally had been sentenced to juvenile probation, to a term of years after revocation of probation where the original offense carried a mandatory life sentence. We hold that a life sentence is not...

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