He was found guilty of second-degree murder at the end of March for the 1998 killing of Renée Sweeney. Wright has been incarcerated since his arrest in December 2018, when he was charged with her stabbing death.
The sentencing hearing will take upwards of a day, as there will be victim impact statements, Ludgate told Gordon. Badali indicated he too would be sending “materials” to the judge in advance of the sentencing hearing. The second-degree murder trial began with jury selection on Feb. 21 and after a little over a month of evidence and testimony, the jury began their deliberations shortly before 1 p.m. on March 28.