Joseph Lawson, who stood trial with Houck, was sentenced to 25 years in prison after being convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and tampering with physical evidence.

Nelson Circuit Court Judge Charles Simms III followed the recommendation of a jury, which, in May, found Lawson guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and tampering with physical evidence.

U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings on Friday ruled she is "frustrated by the nebulous and disjointed" allegations of prosecutorial misconduct during the trial last fall.

"There is no need for a prison sentence to protect the public" from Hankison, according to a sentencing memorandum.

While Brown has claimed he never meant to hurt or kill anyone, prosecutors allege that he took “direct aim” at Greenberg and shot at him multiple times, twice hitting the desk where the mayoral candidate was sitting. The wall immediately behind where Greenberg was sitting had multiple bullet holes, according to pictures of the scene.

The day after a former Norton Commons doctor pleaded guilty in April to trying to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband, she solicited other inmates "in a renewed effort to find someone to murder" him, according to prosecutors.

In December, a jury deliberated for less than an hour before convicting Rhodes of three murders, one count of tampering with physical evidence, and two counts of abuse of a corpse in the shooting of Christopher Jones and brutal beating and stabbings of teenage brothers Maurice Gordon and Larry Ordway.

A defense attorney and family members of Brice Rhodes asked a jury Tuesday for leniency in sentencing him on six guilty charges against him, including three murder counts.