People v. Brown

Chief Justice Thomas and Justices Freeman, Fitzgerald, Kilbride, Carman, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion.

OPINION

Defendant, Woodrow Brown, is an inmate in the Department of Corrections, where he is serving a 28-year sentence for attempted murder of a police officer, a crime he committed in 1997 at the age of 16. The issue presented by this case is whether defendant should be granted postconviction relief on the grounds that the statute under which he was transferred from juvenile custody to criminal court and subsequently sentenced was declared invalid by our court in People v.…