Joe Hunt’s Sentencing Delayed
The sentencing of Billionaire Boys Club leader Joe Hunt for murder was unexpectedly postponed in Santa Monica today after his lawyer complained that he had not received Hunt’s probation report in time to study it.
Superior Court Judge Laurence Rittenband, noting that California law requires delivery of probation reports nine days before sentencing, said, “I have no alternative but to continue this until July 6.” A jury has recommended Hunt spent the rest of his life in prison without possibility of parole for the murder of a Beverly Hills con man, and Rittenband has little recourse but to impose that sentence.
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