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Sentencing Delayed for Convicted Murderer
Sentencing has been delayed in the case of a Galesburg man convicted two months ago of murder following a shooting at a local tavern last year.

The sentencing and consideration of a request for a motion of a new trial were to be considered Tuesday in Knox County Circuit Court in the case of 33-year old Marlon Brown, but Judge Stephen Mathers granted a continuance -- in part, he says, because a response to the defense's new trial motion wasn't received by the court until last Friday, which wouldn't allow him or Public Defender Jim Harrell time to review it given that Monday was a court holiday.

Brown was convicted March 25th of murder charges, after allegedly shooting 29-year old Deriek Lawless outside Andrews Lounge in Galesburg last August, killing him.

Mathers did allow for sentencing hearing-related testimony Tuesday. The court heard from Brown's girlfriend, Natasha Trent, who said, "My kids love him", and that Brown coached her son in the Galesburg Junior Football League for several seasons before being arrested.

A victim impact statement was read in court written by Lawless' sister Tiki, who says "No one that breathes could relate to the drop in my heart."

The sentencing and motion for a new trial will both now be taken up June ninth. Brown could receive between 20 and 60 years in prison.


(Marlon Brown. WGIL News File Photo.)
05 26 09 by Newsroom
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