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Seven pending cases were resolved last week with plea bargains or sentencing hearings.

One man found guilty by a jury was sentenced to life in prison for murder. A second man decided to change his plea to guilty and was given 36 years.

Carlos M. Flores-Renteria was 16 when he was charged in the shooting death of Brandon Hammett. He was found guilty of third-degree murder.

The jury deliberated for less than an hour before finding Luis Angel Ortega guilty of the first-degree murder of Brandon Hammett, 18.

Ocala father rebukes man who pleads guilty in son's death David Hammett didn't mince words when addressing Dalton Wayne Purvis, one of four people charged in connection with the death of Hammett's son in October 2018 Speaking by phone on Monday during a court hearing, Hammett said Purvis took his son away from him and his wife. He called Purvis a murderer. He said Hammett took away his son's dream of studying computer science. He said he will never have grandchildren from his son. As Hammett spoke – sometimes using foul language, which the judge asked him to curtail – Purvis watched ...