DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan is asking a higher court to stop a federal judge from interfering in the resentencing of so-called juvenile lifers.
The attorney general’s office is accusing Judge John Corbett O’Meara of a “deep, unwarranted intrusion” on the rights of prosecutors.
The state wants a federal appeals court to suspend or throw out a restraining order that halts the resentencing process.
Prosecutors across the state plan to disclose by July 22 whether to seek no-parole sentences again for 360 prisoners known as juvenile lifers who were convicted of murder as teenagers.
It’s the result of a U.S. Supreme Court decision about the treatment of teens in the justice system.
But O’Meara stopped the process last week.
He’s ordered parole hearings instead, but that remedy is in dispute.
- Posted July 18, 2016
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State asks court to stop 'intrusion' on juvenile lifer cases
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