On Tuesday, we told you about 22 year-old Emmerson Eaghan who was convicted in the Supreme Court of the June 2009 murder of 35 year-old Dennis Nembhard.
Today, he was sentenced to life in prison by Justice Adolph Lucas.
Eaghan was given an attempt to prepare a mitigation plea, but in court today, he called no witnesses to speak on his behalf, and the task was left up to his attorney, Simeon Sampson, to address the court.
Justice Lucas then looked at the evidence in the trial and he noted that Eaghan's fate was already decided by the jury who accepted the written police statement from the now-deceased Shelmadine Sanchez.
Sanchez's statement detailed the entire murder which included her identification of Eaghan as the gunman.
After he briefly brushed through the statement again, Justice Lucas handed him a sentence of life imprisonment. Eaghan become the first man convicted of murder for 2012.
As we reported, the prosecution was able to get Sanchez's statement admitted into evidence against Eaghan. She was the only witness who was able to identify Eaghan, and it was suspected that is why she was killed.
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