22-07-2024 17:01 via wbrz.com

Judge won't impose longer term after killing of panhandler outside Trader Joe's in 2020

BATON ROUGE — A district judge said Monday he wouldn't impose a longer prison term on the man convicted of killing a panhandler in the Trader Joe's parking lot four years ago.Prosecutors had said Jace Boyd's 18-month prison term was too short and asked Judge Brad Myers to consider a longer sentence. Myers refused.Boyd had faced up to 40 years in prison for manslaughter. After his sentencing, District Attorney Hillar Moore III said Boyd had shown no remorse for killing Danny Buckley, 6
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