MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) - A man who pleaded no contest to first-degree murder in the beating and stabbing death of his cellmate at a prison in western Michigan has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
The Muskegon Chronicle reports (https://bit.ly/1ikG2Gn ) 50-year-old Robert Allen Hall received the mandatory punishment on Monday in Muskegon. He earlier entered the plea, which isn’t an admission of guilt but is treated as such for sentencing.
Hall was sharing a cell in October with 50-year-old Donald Winnie at Brooks Correctional Facility in Muskegon when Winnie was beaten with a chunk of asphalt and stabbed with a piece of metal.
Hall was serving a life sentence for a 2007 murder, but earlier had the chance of parole. Winnie also was serving a life sentence. He died at a hospital.
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Information from: The Muskegon Chronicle, https://www.mlive.com/muskegon
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