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November 21, 2011


Michael George To Receive Life Sentence This Morning

There's not a lot of suspense in this morning sentencing of convicted former retailer and convention organizer Michael George: the recent conviction for murdering his then-wife Barbara in 1990 comes with a mandatory life sentence. The retailer was found guilty in October of first-degree murder, after a convoluted trial history that included the case going cold for 17 years, an initial conviction overturned because of the actions of the prosecutor's office, and a second trial in which one of the daughters of the now convicted man and the victim spoke on behalf of her father, but George himself once again declined to testify on his own behalf. Barbara George was murdered with a gunshot to the head in the George's then comic book store in Michigan.
 
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