People of Michigan v. Demariol Dontaye Boykin

Summary

The court held that sentencing courts must treat youth as a mitigating factor when imposing term-of-years sentences on juvenile offenders under the applicable statutory schemes, but need not expressly detail that consideration on the record. Because the record did not clearly establish whether the sentencing courts properly treated youth as mitigating, the court vacated the portions of the appellate decisions addressing sentencing and remanded for further review.