Michigan man sentenced as juvenile to get resentenced
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man who was sentenced to life in prison as a teenager on charges of robbery, abduction and murder has had his life sentence overturned.
Kent County Circuit Judge Mark Trusock on Thursday ruled that 36-year-old Chad Maleski is eligible for resentencing under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that says it’s unconstitutional to mandatorily sentence juvenile offenders to life without parole.
Maleski was 17 when he was found guilty of kidnapping, carjacking, unarmed robbery and murder for being one of four teens who attacked 66-year-old Willie Jones in 2000.
Trusock says Maleski wasn’t the leader of the group, cooperated with police and led investigators to the body.
Maleski is being held in a state prison in Saginaw. He’ll be resentenced in December and could receive between 25 to 60 years.
Charges dismissed vs. man convicted in 2001 double killing
DETROIT (AP) — Charges have been dismissed against a man convicted in a 2001 Detroit double homicide who had been awaiting a new trial.
Mubarez Ahmed was convicted in 2002 and served 16 years of a 40-to-60-year sentence. The 48-year-old was released from custody in September .
The Detroit News reports Wayne County Circuit Judge Timothy Kenny said Friday there’s reasonable doubt in the case.
Ahmed says it’s “just a great feeling.”
Ahmed appealed in 2003, but was denied. The county’s court integrity unit later agreed with the Michigan Innocence Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School that Ahmed’s murder conviction was tainted.
They say alternate suspects in the deaths of Lavelle Griffin and LaTanya White, who were shot in a car, weren’t considered by police. The Innocence Clinic later identified another suspect.
14th Annual Dennis W. Archer Public Service Award Gala set for Nov. 8
Join peers in honoring Hon. Robert J. Colombo, Jr., chief judge, Third Judicial Circuit Court, at the 14th Annual Dennis W. Archer Public Service Award Gala. It will be held from 6-9 p.m. Thursday, November 8 at the Detroit Yacht Club, 1 Riverbank Rd. in Detroit.
Archer Award winners all have one thing in common — each is an attorney or jurist who exemplifies the ideal of the law as public service. Proceeds will fund free legal clinics and community outreach programs.
Sponsorship opportunities are still available (visit www.detroitlawyer.org to download sponsorship form). The cost to attend is $150 per person. Register at www.detroitlawyer.org.
For more information contact Darlene Trudell at dtrudell@detroitlawyer.org or 313-961-6120, ext. 201.
––––––––––––––––––––
Subscribe to the Legal News!
http://www.legalnews.com/Home/Subscription
Full access to public notices, articles, columns, archives, statistics, calendar and more
Day Pass Only $4.95!
One-County $80/year
Three-County & Full Pass also available
