Flowers, who was 16 at the time of the killings, and his 17-year-old accomplice, Stafon Edward Thompson, were convicted in 2009 of two counts of first-degree murder.
Brian Flowers was 16 when he was convicted in the brutal stabbing of a mother in her son. A new law and judicial ruling are now negating his life sentence.
A Minneapolis man serving life a life prison sentence without parole for his role as a teen in a grisly double-murder of a mother and son was resentenced Friday, paving the way for his possible release. Brian Lee Flowers, now 32, and his friend Stafon Thompson were convicted as teens for murdering 35-year-old Katricia Daniels and her 10-year-old son, Robert Shepard, in their duplex in .
Brian Flowers, 32, was resentenced in Ramsey County Court to two concurrent (at the same time) life sentences with the possibility of parole. He was initially sentenced to two consecutive (one after another) life sentences.
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