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PEOPLE v. PARKS

No. 162086.

987 N.W.2d 161 (2022)

510 Mich. 225

PEOPLE of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Kemo Knicombi PARKS, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 28, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dana Nessel, Attorney General, Fadwa A. Hammoud, Solicitor General, David S. Leyton, Prosecuting Attorney, and Michael A. Tesner, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

State Appellate Defender (by Angeles R. Meneses) for defendant.

James M. Brown in propria persona, amicus curiae.

Robert E. Hawkins in propria persona, amicus curiae.

Cooley LLP (by Kathleen Hartnett, Darina Shtrakhman, Zoë Helstrom, Adam Gershenson, Robert W. Jacques, and Matt Nguyen) and Gurewitz & Raben PLC, Detroit (by Harold Gurewitz) for Leading Developmental Psychologists, Neuroscientists, and Scholars, amici curiae.

BEFORE THE ENTIRE BENCH.

OPINION

This is the direct appeal of the mandatory life-without-parole sentence imposed on defendant, Kemo Knicombi Parks, for his first-degree premeditated-murder conviction under MCL 750.316(1)(a), Parks was 18 years old when he aided and abetted in the murder. Parks asserts that his sentence is cruel and/or unusual punishment...

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