Web Posted: 10/08/2008 12:00 CDT

By Graeme Zielinski
San Antonio Express-News

A day after they were pejoratively called “The Dirty Dozen” in yet another outburst by murder defendant Richard Jett, a Bexar County jury sentenced the three-time convict to 99 years in prison Tuesday for the 2006 stabbing and beating death of 80-year-old Homer Lee Daniels.

Jett, 50, who was required by statute to be present in the courtroom, sat quietly in a wheelchair and spit mask while the sentence was handed down by 379th District Court Judge Bert Richardson.

Jurors had deliberated on Tuesday for 11/2 hours, about the same amount of time it took them Friday to find Jett guilty of murdering Daniels in June 2006 at his East Side home, where Jett had been a guest.

Prosecutors called witnesses to show that Jett continued to be a danger to the community and that his weeks of courtroom and holding-cell antics, which made it among the weirdest trials a Bexar courtroom had seen, were not symptoms of any mental illness.

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