Juvenile Lifer Skips Chance To Possibly Get New Sentence

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A man convicted of killing three people when he was a teenager says he was “rotten from the beginning” and is skipping a chance to possibly get a new sentence from a judge in suburban Detroit. Michael Kvam told a judge on Friday that he deserves to die in prison. TV station WXYZ quotes Kvam as saying, “I’m a killer, plain and simple.”

Kvam was 17 when he killed a teenager, a woman, and a nine-year-old girl in Oakland County and was found guilty of the crimes in 1984. Under a U.S. Supreme Court decision, teens given automatic no-parole sentences are entitled to a new hearing. But Kvam, who’s now 52 years old, waived that opportunity Friday. It’s possible that he would have received the same sentence.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.