People of Michigan v. Robert Taylor

Summary

The Court held that when the prosecution seeks juvenile life without parole under MCL 769.25, it must overcome a presumption that life without parole is disproportionate by clear and convincing evidence. Because the trial court resentenced defendant without applying that framework, defendant was entitled to resentencing, but the Court first remanded to the Court of Appeals to decide an unresolved constitutional challenge to the sentence. The Court did not decide whether defendant's felony-murder sentence as an aider and abettor violated the federal or state constitutional prohibitions on cruel or unusual punishment.