UW Professor John Gross explains a sentencing hearing as the time when lawyers and victims can address the courtroom, talking deeper about the case and how it impacted them. After that, a judge hands down a defendant’s sentence. But Gross says no matter what anyone says in the courtroom come Thursday, it won’t change Halderson’s fate since first degree intentional homicide carries with it a mandatory sentence to life in prison in the state of Wisconsin.
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