7/29/14 - It will be another week before the three men convicted in the robbery and killing of a former Livingston County man will learn their fate. Sentencing had been set for Monday for the trio charged with the murder of 53-year-old John Mick, who was shot to death at the Flint River Village Apartments in August of 2010. Records indicate it has been moved to August 4thy as prosecutors seek a term of life in prison without parole for two of the defendants, one of whom was a juvenile at the time of the murder. Mick, who lived in Brighton for 14 years, had worked as an engineering technician at the GM Proving Grounds in Milford before retiring to take a security guard job in Flint. 22-year-old Floyd Gene Perkins and 21-year-old Kenya Ali Hyatt were convicted earlier this month by a Genesee County jury of first-degree murder in the case as well as armed robbery and firearms charges. A third defendant, 33-year-old Aaron Williams, was only convicted on the armed robbery and firearms charges. Perkins and Hyatt face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Hyatt was only 17 at the time of the murder and because of a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that it is unconstitutional for juveniles to face such a sentence, Governor Snyder signed a law in March allowing judges the discretion to sentence teen murderers to terms of as few as 25 years in prison, although a life sentence is still possible, just not mandatory. (JK)
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