Sentencing in Derrion Albert killing

State's Attorney Anita Alvarez (left)  joins Derrion Albert's mother Anjanette Albert and grandfather Norman Golliday at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse today after Lapoleon Colbert was sentenced to 32 years in prison in Albert's death. Colbert was the last of five defendants convicted in the videotaped 2009 beating death of Derrion Albert near Fenger High School.

( Michael Tercha / Chicago Tribune / August 28, 2011 )

State's Attorney Anita Alvarez (left) joins Derrion Albert's mother Anjanette Albert and grandfather Norman Golliday at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse today after Lapoleon Colbert was sentenced to 32 years in prison in Albert's death. Colbert was the last of five defendants convicted in the videotaped 2009 beating death of Derrion Albert near Fenger High School.

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