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Article: Brownlee gets 25 years; Convicted murderer faced a possible 66-year sentence
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
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- August 11, 2006
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LANCASTER, Wis. - Pushing aside tougher penalty recommendations, a
Grant County judge imposed a 25-year prison sentence on a Woodman man
who pleaded guilty last month to second-degree intentional homicide
in the 2005 death of his wife.
Cliffton J. Brownlee, 25, was sentenced to 25 years in prison
followed by 20 years of extended supervision by Grant County Circuit
Court Judge George Curry on Thursday afternoon. He had faced a
possible 66-year sentence.
Brownlee had been charged with first-degree intentional homicide
after his wife, Justine Reynolds-Brownlee, 17, was found stabbed to
death in the couple's rural Woodman mobile home on June 9, 2005. The
couple's 3-week-old daughter Kira was ...