BATTLE CREEK (AP) — A judge has reduced a sentence for a southern Michigan man convicted of murder as a teenager to at least 37 years in prison.
The Battle Creek Enquirer reports 41-year-old Terrence Kelly is the second of eight juvenile lifers from Calhoun County to be re-sentenced after a ruling by the U.S. Supreme
Court that life without parole for juveniles is cruel and unusual punishment.
Kelly already has served more than 23 years toward the new 37- to 60-year sentence. Kelly’s attorney Sofia Nelson argued for a minimum sentence of 25 years.
Kelly was sentenced in 1995 to life without parole after a conviction for first-degree murder in the 1993 shooting death of 18-year-old Edward Wilkins.
Wilkins was shot amid an argument the two had while playing a video game.
- Posted January 01, 2018
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Judge reduces sentence for man convicted of murder as teen
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