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Attorney willie max had heard enough and indicted hilton for the murder of cheryl dunlap. >> he's gone away for life. he'll be leaving georgia corrections in a pine box. why does florida need to go to the expense of a death penalty trial? >> my thought is this is an evil, bad person and there ought to be a consequence in life to evil acts. i don't think murderers ought to be cheaper the more you do. >> with the dunlap case looking like a carbon copy of the meredith emerson murder, you might think the case would be a gimme for the prosecutors, but far from it. they would not be allowed to enter...

To the murder of meredith emerson. in the south, authority in florida were convinced he had murdered nurse and mother sheryl dunlap whose partial remains were recovered two weeks before meredith emerson went missing. hilton was defying authorities in georgia to make the charges stick. >> if they want to spend a million dollars, 2 million, to convict me and then another 2 million to get death, hey, they can do it. >> leon county florida state's attorney willie max had heard enough and indicted had hilton for the murder of sheryl dunlap. >> he's gone away for life. he'll be leaving georgia corre...

Murder case deliberated for only a few hours. when they filed back into the courtroom, he read their faces and knew, they found him guilty. >> two counts of murder, received two life sentences. >> that's called a pine box sentence. >> pretty much. >> getting out of the system in a pine box when you're dead. >> bambi said she didn't want to be in court for the verdict. her attorney called her with the news. >> here i am thinking, oh, my gosh, could he have done this? and then i'm going in the back of my head, there's no way he could have did this. >> rick felt as though he had been sandbagged. ...

Attorney willie max had heard enough and indicted had hilton for the murder of sheryl dunlap. >> he's gone away for life. he'll be leaving georgia corrections in a pine box. why does florida need to go to the expense of a death penalty trial? >> my thought is this is an evil, bad person and there ought to be a consequence in life to evil acts. i don't think murderers ought to be cheaper the more you do >> with the dunlap case looking like a carbon copy of the meredith emor son murder, you may think it would be a gimme. far from it. they could not enter the evidence about the erm son murder or ...

>> getting out of the system in a pine box when you're dead. >> bambi said she didn't want to be in court for the verdict. her attorney called her with the news. >> here i am thinking, oh, my gosh, could he have done this? and then i'm going in the back of my head, there's no way he could have did this. >> rick felt as though he had been sandbagged. >> i believed if god saw fit for me to go home, i would go home. >> and that thought was about all he had left, faith in god and a good appellate lawyer. in this case, bob. >> in my 22 or 23 years of being an appellate defense attorney, rick gagnon...