Retired Judge Dennis Waldron this morning delayed the sentencing of Telly Hankton for one week after his lawyers filed a motion requested a retrial. Hankton faces a mandatory life sentence after being convicted of second-degree murder in the 2008 shooting death of Darnell Stewart.
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