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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brandin Brick is facing sentencing after being convicted of second-degree murder for killing James Chaisson in February 2018.

The highest court in Pennsylvania ruled Thursday that the state's mandatory minimum sentence for second-degree murder was unconstitutional. Under sentencing guidelines, anyone convicted of the offense ...