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PEOPLE v. STOVALL

Docket No. 162425 Calendar No. 3.

987 N.W.2d 85 (2022)

510 Mich. 301

PEOPLE of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Montez STOVALL, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 28, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dana Nessel , Attorney General, Fadwa A. Hammoud , Solicitor General, Kym Worthy , Prosecuting Attorney, and Jon P. Wojtala , Chief of Research, Training, and Appeals, for the people.

State Appellate Defender (by Sofia V. Nelson and Adrienne N. Young ) for defendant.

Tessa B. Bialek for the Quinnipiac University School of Law Juvenile Sentencing Project, amicus curiae.

Bonsitu A. Kitaba-Gaviglio and Daniel S. Korobkin for the American Civil Liberties Union Fund of Michigan, amicus curiae.

Marsha L. Levick for the Juvenile Law Center, amicus curiae.

John C. Shearrod El in propria persona, amicus curiae.

Carlton West II in propria persona, amicus curiae.

Arthur L. Jones in propria persona, amicus curiae.

Michael S. Perkins in propria persona, amicus curiae.

Michael Johnson in propria persona, amicus curiae.

BEFORE THE ENTIRE BENCH

OPINION

We consider whether the defendant's life sentence with the possibility of parole for second-degree murder, imposed for a crime committed when he was a juvenile, violates Article 1, § 16 of the Michigan Constitution. That provision, unlike its federal counterpart, forbids cruel or unusual punishment,...

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