Antwon Powell (Photo source: Brown County Jail)
GREEN BAY (WLUK) – A judge properly considered a murder victim’s life expectancy when setting the sentence in a Green Bay murder case, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.
Antwon Powell was convicted of first-degree intentional homicide for the murder of David Shorter at a duplex on Bellevue Street on Dec. 3, 2015. He was sentenced to life in prison, but is eligible to ask for parole after 38 years.
In his appeal, Powell argued the judge incorrectly applied information about Shorter’s life expectancy when setting when Powell would be eligible for parole. But the court rejected that Tuesday.
“We conclude that a homicide victim’s life expectancy, and his or her family’s lost companionship, are appropriate factors for a sentencing court to consider. Here, the circuit court did not place undue weight on any single factor in determining Powell’s extended supervision eligibility date because the court tied the victim’s life expectancy to its overall sentencing objective of imposing a sentence that recognized the gravity of the offense and the harm done to the victim and his family,” the ruling states.
Powell is currently at the Waupun Correctional Institution, state records show.
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