The man convicted of strangling a Baton Rouge icon in 2019 was ordered to spend the rest of his life in a Louisiana prison on Thursday.
A jury found Ronn Jermaine Bell, 44, guilty of second-degree murder in the killing of local civil rights activist Sadie Roberts-Joseph. Their verdict culminated a five-day murder trial inside the 19th Judicial District Courthouse that ended June 7.
District Judge Brad Myers imposed the state-mandated sentence of life without the possibility of parole on Bell. The courtroom at the 19th JDC was nearly empty Thursday…