Menominee County Prosecuting Attorney Jeffrey T. Rogg announced that he is joining many of the Michigan’s 83 county prosecuting attorneys in opposition to the “Juvenile Lifer” legislation poised to pass in the Michigan House and Senate. The new laws would enact an absolute bar for anyone under 19 years of age receiving a “life without parole” sentence when convicted of First-Degree Murder, regardless of the number of victims who were killed and no matter how horrific the circumstances of their crime. Rogg says, “these proposed bills would make every person convicted of First-Degree Murder, for an act they committed before their 19th birthday, eligible for parole release after just 10 years.”
Rogg says, “I am in favor of juveniles having second chances, but juveniles who have committed First-Degree Murder should face the possibility of the ultimate consequence, a life without a parole sentence.”
House Bills 4160 – 4164 and Senate Bills 119 – 123 are pending in the House Criminal Justice Committee and the Senate Civil Rights, Judiciary and Public Safety Committee.
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