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Life Without Parole For Two Murder Convicts

Posted: Apr. 29, 2016 4:29 PM PDT

Two brothers convicted of murder have been formally sentenced by a Nevada County judge to life in prison without parole, along with consecutive 25-year terms. District Attorney Cliff Newell says the sentences are pre-set by law for such a crime. He says 23-year-old Christopher Nix and 20-year-old Scott Hollingshead were convicted of special allegations that included lying in wait in the April 2014 shooting and beating death of Brian Spalding, outside Spalding’s Banner Mountain home…

click to listen to Cliff Newell

Newell says what motivated the crime may never be clear to him…

click to listen to Cliff Newell

Meanwhile, Newell says he expects the sentence to be appealed.

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