People v. Campbell, 2025 Mich. App. LEXIS 10103 (Mich. Ct. App. 2025)

The Michigan 1st District Court of Appeals vacated second-degree murder and assault with the intent to commit murder sentences for an individual who was 18 years old at the time of the incident and remanded with instructions for the trial court to consider youthfulness and its attendant characteristics as mitigating factors. The court stated in relevant part:

“Defendant was entitled to be sentenced in a manner that duly accounted for the individualized circumstances of defendant and the offenses, which included his “youth and its attendant characteristics as potentially mitigating factors.” Eads, Mich App at   ; slip op at 15, 2021 Mich. App. LEXIS 4359. See also Echols, Mich App at    ; slip op at 8 (instructing the trial court to ensure its resentencing of defendant was “in line with our state’s nonconstitutional principle of proportionality[]” by considering the defendant’s “youth and its attendant characteristics at the time of the offense as potentially mitigating—and not aggravating—factors.”).

Accordingly, defendant’s term-of-years sentences of 65 to 100 years’ imprisonment for his second-degree murder and AWIM convictions are invalid for lack of proportionality and he is entitled to resentencing.”