People v. Langston
Michigan Supreme Court will consider constitutionality of mandatory application of life-without-parole sentences to adults convicted of “felony murder" at a time when Michigan juries were not required to find malice to convict, before a 1980 decision by the court made it a required element of any murder charge
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