Michigan Votes Forum

Introduced in the House on February 28, 2008, to shorten the amount of time a prisoner convicted of manufacturing, delivering or possessing serious narcotics or cocaine under the state's repealed "lifer law" must serve before becoming eligible for parole

The vote was 92 in favor, 16 opposed and 2 not voting

(House Roll Call 397 at House Journal 47)

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