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A man sentenced to fifteen years in prison for killing another man over stolen cigarettes is set to walk free.
Mark D. Mills, 45, was convicted of manslaughter for the January 1997 beating death of Benny Click.
Mills appealed his 185 month sentence, saying under sentencing guidelines the maximum he should have received was 92.5 months.
Judge Dedee Costello later reduced Mills’ sentence by 5 months, because according to testimony the beating involved “extraordinary physical trauma.”
Today the First District Court of Appeal overturned the 180 month sentence, saying the trial court re-sentencing was in error because a jury may not have chosen to believe the testimony.
Mills was resentenced under the original guidelines calling for 92 months and is being released because he would have fulfilled that sentence in 2005.
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Hi. This guy BEAT ANOTHER MANT TO DEATH over what? Cigaretts? Seriously? What’s he going to do when someone pisses him off at the grocery store checkout lane?
I know cigaretts are addictave and all, but HOLY MOLY, can we say loose cannon? He MURDERED someone! Lock the guy up and throw away the key!!!