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June 15, 2006

Man convicted in murder-robbery gets 2 life sentences

PROVIDENCE -- Superior Court Judge Patricia A. Hurst today sentenced Kendall Whitaker to two consecutive life sentences for the 2002 murder and robbery of Joel Jackson.

The investigation into the murder was led by the late Providence police Detective Sgt. James L. Allen, who was killed at police headquarters last year. The suspect in Allen's murder, Esteban Carpio, is on trial now.

"Today's sentencing results from what is most likely the last major prosecution of an investigation headed by Detective Allen," Attorney General Patrick Lynch said in a statement. "It's a fitting tribute to Jimmy Allen's outstanding attributes, both as an officer of the law and a human being, that this brutal murderer has been brought to justice."

More than a dozen witnesses testified during the month-long trial before convicting Whitaker last October. Whitaker, of Providence, who was 18 at the time of Jackson's murder, did not take the stand.

Jackson, 19, was the brother of 12-year-old Jermaine Ellis, who was shot and killed at the Chad Brown Housing Development just a few months before Jackson's killing.

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