Trial and Conviction
Entwistle's trial for double-murder began on 2 June 2008 in Woburn, Massachusetts. He was found guilty of all charges on 25 June 2008 and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, the mandatory sentence for first degree murder in the state of Massachusetts, on 26 June 2008. Judge Diane Kottmyer made it clear that this was a whole life sentence, subject only to a governor's pardon or successful appeal.
The formal legal fight in the trial ended on 23 June. After deliberating for nine hours over two days, on 25 June 2008 the jury found Entwistle guilty on the charge of first degree murder. He was also found guilty of the illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition. Kottmyer imposed two life sentences on the murder charges and ten years of probation on the firearms and ammunition charges, all to run concurrently, and the condition that he never profit from the sale of his story.
Entwistle was first incarcerated at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, although Kottmyer had originally said that he would serve his sentences at Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Cedar Junction.
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