Eve Carson Update: Laurence Lovette Jr., N.C. man convicted in UNC student's 2008 death, gets life in prison without parole, again

(CBS/AP) HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. - A Superior Court judge has re-sentenced Laurence Lovette Jr., one of two men convicted in the 2008 shooting death of University of North Carolina student body president Eve Carson, to life in prison without the possibility of parole, CBS affiliate WRAL reports.

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Lovette, 22, automatically received the sentence when he was convicted of first-degree murder on Dec. 20, 2011, but the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in February that the lower court must re-sentence him because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that requires judges to consider mitigating circumstances in cases where defendants were under the age of 18 at the time of a crime.

Lovette was 17 in the early hours of March 5, 2008, when, prosecutors say, Carson, 22, endured a nearly two-hour ordeal in which Lovette and another man, Demario James Atwater, kidnapped her from her Chapel Hill home and drove her in her SUV to ATMs, where Lovette withdrew money from her bank account.

The pair then drove Carson to a neighborhood near UNC's campus, where Lovette shot her four times with a handgun and then Atwater fired the final and fatal shot.

"You know, people make mistakes. Nobody's perfect. I'm not the monster that ya'll made me out to be," Lovette said prior to Judge Allen Baddour's sentencing on Monday. "I know that this has been a traumatic ordeal for everybody involved. For that, I send my condolences to everybody who's been affected by it. If it means anything to anybody, it means something to me."

Atwater, 26, who is serving two life prison terms, avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty to state and federal charges in the case.

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