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Article: After the sentencing Killer's term among stiffest Judge Miller says the message is in Walker's punishment
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 24, 1996
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The sentence imposed on convicted police killer Curtis Walker
widely criticized as handed down sympathetically by Circuit Judge
Stanley Miller is among the most severe ever imposed here.
Miller's sentence of Walker life without parole eligibility for 75
years is in the top 10% of the county's most severe sentences for
first-degree intentional homicide, according to data compiled by Jon
Reddin, deputy district attorney.
The prosecutor had sought life without parole eligibility for 90
years.
Miller told Walker, 19, during Monday's sentencing that "the hand
that you were dealt was unfair." He went on to say, "Quite
honestly, . . . I wonder if I could have survived. I doubt it."
The ...