State of Maine v. Eric Hamel

[¶ 1] In this sentence review appeal, Eric Hamel challenges the concurrent forty-five-year prison sentences imposed by the court (Clifford, J.) on Hamel’s judgment of conviction for two counts of intentional or Mowing murder, 17-A M.R.S. § 201(1)(A) (2012), entered on his guilty pleas. Hamel argues that the court abused its discretion in sentencing him to a longer prison term than that of his two co-conspirators. We disagree and affirm the sentences.

I. BACKGROUND

[¶ 2] In 2009, Gayla Sheldon asked her boyfriend, Richard Moulton, to either kill her estranged husband, Victor Sheldon, or arrange…