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| First Erie County ‘juvenile lifer’ to be resentenced |
| By goerie.com- Michael Cros |
| Published: 10/16/2017 |
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Michael Crosby, now 39, will learn Monday whether he will be eligible for parole in 1996 slaying. A defendant who has served more than 21 years of a life sentence for murder will be back in Erie County Court Monday to learn if he will ever be eligible for parole. Now 39, the defendant, Michael G. Crosby, was six days shy of his 18th birthday when he fatally shot 19-year-old Demetrius Johnson on June 27, 1996, in what prosecutors called a contract-style killing. Crosby’s conviction of first-degree murder in the case — and the mandatory sentence of life without parole that followed — make him one of Erie County’s nine “juvenile lifers,” whose mandatory life sentences for murders committed before they turned 18 years old were ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court five years ago. Read More. |
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