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May 3, 2006

Schedule set for Biechele's sentencing in Station fire

PROVIDENCE -- The sentencing for the man who ignited The Station nightclub fire will span three days beginning this Monday with "victim impact statements."

The Superior Court today released the schedule for the sentencing of former Great White tour manager Daniel M. Biechele, who pleaded guilty to 100 counts of manslaughter in connection with the deaths of 100 people in the 2003 blaze in West Warwick.

The sentencing itself is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. a week from today. Biechele faces up to 10 years in prison.

Superior Court Judge Francis J. Darigan will hear from relatives of about 30 of the fire victims. Each relative will have five minutes to address the court, before Darigan's ruling on the length of the sentence.

The proceedings will take place in the Licht Judicial Complex at 250 Benefit St. They will be aired live on Court TV, which is carried locally on the Cox Communications network on Channel 71, on the Full Channel network on Channel 80, and DIRECTV on Channel 203

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