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Mechele Linehan takes notes during her sentencing in Anchorage on Friday, March 28, 2008 for the murder of Kent Leppink. Linehan was convicted in October 2007 of first-degree murder in the death of Leppink. John Carlin III, was earlier convicted in the 1996 murder. The hearing has been recessed until Wednesday.