Sentencing For Convicted Murderer Christopher Lee Scheduled For Tuesday Morning

Christopher Brandon Lee, who was convicted on Nov. 3, 2016 of murdering Erin Corwin, is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday. The sentencing hearing is slated for 8:30 a.m. in the courtroom of Judge J. David Mazurek, who presided over Lee's murder trial.

As I wrote in a previous blog post, Mazurek doesn't really have any legal wiggle room in the sentence he hands down. According to FindLaw.com, Mazurek must automatically give Lee life in prison WITHOUT the possibility of parole because the jury found Lee guilty of murder in the first degree with the special circumstance of lying in wait:

"State laws require a sentence of life imprisonment without parole or death for homicides involving special circumstances set by the California Penal Code."

The death penalty was taken off the table before Lee's trial began on Oct. 11, 2016. Erin Corwin's mother, Lore Heavilin, is expected to be present at the sentencing.