SAGINAW, MI — After decades in prison for a murder he committed when he was 15, Trevor T. Relerford had a second chance after juvenile life sentences were ruled unconstitutional.

He’s heading back to prison after drunkenly crashing into a Michigan State Police patrol vehicle.

Relerford, now 51, appeared before Saginaw County Circuit Judge Darnell Jackson for sentencing the afternoon of Nov. 24.

The day before his trial was to begin in September, Relerford pleaded no contest to all three charges he faced: failing to use due care when passing a stationary emergency vehicle causing injury, operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, and driving without insurance.

The first charge is colloquially known as Michigan’s Move Over Law and is the most serious of the three, being a felony puni

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