A Cook County judge today sentenced a man to 32 years in prison in the 2009 videotaped beating death of Fenger High School sophomore Derrion Albert.
Lapoleon Colbert, 20, kept his hands folded on the defense table and frowned as Judge Nicholas Ford imposed the sentence at the end of a long lecture.
In June, Colbert was the fifth and final person to be convicted of first-degree murder in Albert's September 2009 death during a brawl near the school between rival groups of youths.
Colbert, at the time a senior at Fenger with no criminal record, was seen on the infamous video kicking Albert in the head and then stomping on his body as he lay defenseless on the pavement, prosecutors said.
The melee broke out among Fenger students from the Altgeld Gardens public housing complex and rivals
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