Husband gets 30 years in Valentine’s murder
LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — A judge has handed a 30-year prison sentence to a Lewiston man convicted of murdering his wife on Valentine's Day last year.
A Nez Perce County jury had convicted Gary Mallory II of strangling Charlene Mabie Mallory, a 48-year-old who married him three months before her death.
Prosecutors recommended life in prison without parole; District Judge Carl Kerrick instead sentenced Mallory to 30 years - three times the minimum term required by statute. Mallory will serve two years for felony domestic battery, followed by an additional 28 years to life on the first-degree murder charge. If he is released, Mallory will be under state supervision for the rest of his life.