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• April 2: Mechele Linehan, right, talks to her attorney, Kevin Fitzgerald, in a courtroom in Anchorage, Alaska before being sentenced to 99 years for the murder of Kent Leppink. Linehan was convicted in October 2007 of first-degree murder in the 1996 death of Leppink. John Carlin III earlier was convicted in the 1996 murder.
• April 2: Mechele Linehan, right, sits next to her attorney, Kevin Fitzgerald, in a courtroom in Anchorage, Alaska.
• April 2: Mechele Linehan sits in a court room in Anchorage, Alaska, after she was sentenced to 99 years for the murder of Kent Leppink.
• April 2: Mechele Linehan's husband, Colin Linehan, left, and mother-in-law, Judy Linehan, listen in a courtroom in Anchorage, Alaska, as Mechele Linehan, center, is sentenced to 99 years for the murder of Kent Leppink.
• April 2: Betsy Leppink, mother of Kent Leppink, left, hugs investigator Linda Branchflower after Mechele Linehan was sentenced in a courtroom in Anchorage, Alaska.
• April 2: Mechele Linehan addresses the court during her sentencing in Anchorage, Alaska.
• April 2: Mechele Linehan sits next to her attorney, Kevin Fitzgerald, in a courtroom in Anchorage, Alaska
• April 2: Mechele Linehan, center, her husband, Colin Linehan, left, and Judy Linehan, right, listen to final arguments in Mechele Linehan's sentencing in Anchorage, Alaska.
• April 2: Mechele Linehan, right, her attorney, Kevin Fitzgerald, left, and her husband, Colin Linehan, center, listen as Judy Linehan gives testimony during Mechele Linehan's sentencing in Anchorage, Alaska.
• April 2: Mechele Lineha, listens to final arguments in her sentencing in Anchorage, Alaska.
• April 2: Mechele Linehan, center, her husband, Colin Linehan, left, and Judy Linehan, right, listen to final arguments in Mechele Linehan's sentencing in Anchorage, Alaska.