DETROIT (AP) - A man convicted of strangling a suburban-Detroit neighbor while robbing her has received the mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.
Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Ulysses Boykin sentenced 43-year-old Myron Williams on Wednesday.
Before the sentencing, Williams said he got “no justice” and was “railroaded” from the day he was arrested.
A prosecutor read a letter in court from Verona Gianino, who says she wishes Michigan had a death penalty so Williams could pay for the death of her only daughter, Sabrina Gianino.
A jury found Williams guilty March 27 of first-degree murder and unarmed robbery.
The 35-year-old Gianino was found dead last May in Grosse Pointe Park, just east of the Detroit city limit. Williams was staying with a relative who lived next door to Gianino.
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