MUSKEGON, Mich. — The oldest prisoner in Michigan was released on Thursday from the Muskegon County Correctional Facility.
74 year-old Sheldry Topp was serving a life sentence for a murder he committed when he was 17 years-old.
Topp was convicted of stabbing and killing a man during a robbery in 1962.
A judge resentenced him this week to a minimum of 40 years, which made him eligible for immediate release.
Michigan and other states were forced to change the way they sentence teens, after the U.S. Supreme Court said judges cannot automatically sentence them to life in prison.
