People v. Mayfield

Defendant pled guilty to second-degree murder, MCL 750.317; MSA 28.549, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, MCL 750.227b; MSA 28.424(2), and habitual offender, second conviction, MCL 769.10; MSA 28.1082. The court sentenced defendant to fifty to eighty years, plus two years for felony-firearm. Defendant was thirty-nine years old at the time of his sentencing.

Defendant argues that he must be resentenced because his fifty-year minimum sentence effectively sentences him to life in prison without parole. We agree.

A sentence imposed for a term of years must be an…