Henry Hill v. Rick Snyder

STRANCH, Circuit Judge.

For the second time in less than twelve months, we find ourselves confronted with Michigan's statutory scheme for resentencing individuals who were convicted of first-degree murder and received mandatory sentences of life without parole for acts they committed as children. The present incarnation of this dispute, now approaching its eighth year, concerns a statutory provision that is collateral to Plaintiffs' resentencing-the elimination of the good time and disciplinary credits that Plaintiffs earned while they served their now-unconstitutional mandatory life…