MORE: Landmark Life Sentence Handed Down in Rutherford County for Aggravated Rape of a Child

 
RUTHERFORD COUNTY, TN - In a historic verdict, 26-year-old Brian Jeffrey Burke, Jr. of Murfreesboro, TN has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the aggravated rape of a child, marking the first instance of the tougher penalty imposed under an amended Tennessee State law in Rutherford County. The verdict was reached swiftly by a Rutherford County jury, taking only 15 minutes after the conclusion of the three-day trial. Rutherford County Circuit Court J ...

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