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Brian Nichols avoids the death penalty - what now?

By Rob Leonard

Today Judge Jim Bodiford sentenced Brian Nichols to four life sentences without parole, seven life sentences plus 485 years all running consecutive to one another.  Brian Nichols will never see the outside world again.  The Judge suggested that the Feds house him at the Federal Supermax prison in Colorado, although he has been convicted of State crimes. I don’t know if this is the last of the courtroom days that we will see for Brian Nichols, the Feds may still prosecute him and try for the death penalty again.  Hopefully, we can all be glad that this nightmare of a case is over for now.  It has single handedly nearly bankrupted the public defender system.  I should note that this is not the only cause of that problem, the legislature is mostly to blame for failing to appropriate all of the money collected from the public defender surcharge on criminal cases, but that is a topic for another day...continue to full post

Full post as published by Georgia Criminal Law Blog on December 13, 2008 (boomark / email).