- Title: TV actor Michael Jace gets 40 years to life for murder of wife
- Date: 10th June 2016
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (JUNE 10, 2016) (UNRESTRICTED POOL) APRIL JACE'S MOTHER, KAY HENRY, ADDRESSING COURT WIDE OF COURT VARIOUS OF MICHAEL JACE ADDRESSING COURT JUDGE SENTENCING JACE WIDE OF COURT VARIOUS OF COURTHOUSE EXTERIOR
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- Keywords: Michael Jace court murder Los Angeles actor The Shield
- Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
- City: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
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Actor Michael Jace, best known for playing a policeman on the TV drama "The Shield," was sentenced on Friday (June 10) to 40 years to life for shooting his wife dead in front of the couple's two children at their Los Angeles home.
Jace received a credit of 754 days served for his time spent imprisoned since his arrest for the May 2014 killing.
Members of the victim's family, April Jace, gave emotional statements in court on Friday, including her mother, Kay Henry.
The actor was upset that his wife wanted a divorce when he shot her once in the back and twice more in the legs, according to prosecutors. He then called authorities and reported that he had shot his wife.
The couple's sons, ages 8 and 5 at the time, watched the killing in the family's South Los Angeles home, prosecutors said. April Jace was 40 years old when she was slain.
Jace's attorneys acknowledged in court that he shot his wife, arguing instead that the shooting was not premeditated. Jace was convicted of second-degree murder, an intentional killing that was not premeditated, in May. - Copyright Holder: POOL (CAN SELL)
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