Victim families upset with plea deal for Boom Island murder defendant

MINNEAPOLIS — The families of two separate victims murdered by 24-year-old Marquez Hill-Turnipseed three years apart are speaking out about a Hennepin County Attorney's Office plea deal that combined their cases into concurrent sentences totaling 40 years in prison. 

Judge Michael Burns, who once rejected a plea deal negotiated by Mary Moriarty's office, reluctantly accepted the negotiation and handed down the 40-year sentence. After serving two-thirds behind bars, Hill-Turnipseed will be released in less than 27 years when he is 50. 

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