The Supreme Court upheld one mandatory minimum Friday but struck down another not based on the case before it but on what might happen.
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That second case involved two men who had both been convicted of armed robbery, which comes with a mandatory minimum sentence. Writing for the majority, Justice Sheila Martin argued a five-year mandatory minimum for armed robbery was not too harsh a sentence.
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