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Article: Bangor man gets 50-year sentence in murder over drug money
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- July 23, 2008
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ELLSWORTH - The sentence for convicted murderer John J. Turner
came down Tuesday like a heavy mallet: 50 years.
For the family of Tad Howard, the victim of Turner's crime, it
was the final chapter in a sad story.
"We're glad that the process has come to an end," Howard's
father, Dale Howard, said on the steps of the Hancock County
Superior Courthouse, minutes after Justice Kevin Cuddy announced the
sentence.
"We had hoped for longer, but when someone asked before what I
thought an appropriate sentence would be, I said 'as long as I'm not
alive when he gets out.'"
A Hancock County jury found Turner, 35, of Bangor guilty of
murder in May, culminating a three-day trial that revealed Turner
and ...
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