Court Opinion

ID: 9850521
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:58:39.283557+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:20:38.482339
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Michael J. Kelly, J.
(concurring in part). I *262concur in the majority’s affirmance of defendant’s convictions, but disagree that defendant’s fifty to one hundred year sentence was proper.
A sentence imposed for a term of years must be an indeterminate sentence less than life that is reasonably possible for a defendant to serve. People v Moore, 432 Mich 311, 329; 439 NW2d 684 (1989). When imposing such a sentence, the trial court should consider the age of the defendant being sentenced. Id. Defendant was born in 1951, and was thirty-six years old at the time of sentencing. I do not think it reasonably possible that defendant would actually be able to serve his entire fifty-year minimum sentence. I would remand for resentencing in accordance with Moore.