Life plus 15 years, plus another 15 years.
Cole Circuit Circuit Judge Dan Green ordered those sentences Wednesday for Calvin Hutson, St. Louis, convicted last May of killing Andre Hudson, 41, Holts Summit, on Dec. 27, 2012, while the two men were sitting in a car on a gravel parking lot in Jefferson City.
Green's sentences accepted Prosecutor Mark Richardson's recommendations: Life for Hutson's second-degree murder conviction to be followed by 15-year terms for attempted first-degree robbery and armed criminal action. The sentences are to run consecutively.
Jurors deliberated nearly 11 hours last May 26, before reaching the convictions.
The jury also found Hutson guilty of unlawful possession of a firearm, and Richardson recommended a seven-year sentence on that charge, to be served concurrently with the other sentences. Green agreed with that recommendation, too.
State law requires Hutson to serve at least 85 percent of the life sentence, which is calculated at 30 years.
So, after serving at least 25.5 years, the 37-year-old Hutson then will have to start the 15 years on the second conviction. He can't start the next 15 years until he's finished serving the first 15.
"This is a sentence that certainly demonstrates to those who commit murders - even if they are drug-related - that there's the potential of them not being out of prison again in their natural life," Richardson told reporters after the hearing.
Richardson reminded Green during the hearing that Hutson "had four prior felony convictions and had only been out of jail for 17 days when he committed this murder."
Richardson also noted: "After the murder, (Hutson) immediately and initially gave lies to the police, claiming himself to be the victim of a random shooting" - after a police office found him lying near the West Dunklin-Broadway intersection, about two blocks south of the parking lot where they found Hudson's body.
Public Defender Kevin Lorenz of Columbia urged Green to impose a lighter sentence - a total of 15 years for all four convictions.
"Calvin Hutson was shot four times in this case," Lorenz noted. "It's a matter of inches between Mr. Hutson possibly being the victim."
Lorenz said the prior convictions generally are drug-related. "Mr. Hutson is a drug dealer, a drug user and he clearly has a drug problem," he said, noting none of the prior charges involved violent crimes.
"Violence would be quite out of character for Mr. Hutson," Lorenz added.
Lorenz had urged the jury to consider self-defense, and told Green Wednesday that Hutson still believes he shot Hudson in self-defense. Hudson "carried a gun, was a drug dealer himself" and showed a weapon during the drug transaction inside a car, the attorney said.
But Richardson argued to the jury last spring that Hutson had planned the meeting as a robbery, not a drug deal.
Richardson told reporters Wednesday that no one who planned a robbery "should ever get away with saying" that he had fired a shot in self-defense.
In a victims' impact statement, Jeffrey Edwards, Hudson's brother, told Green the two had promised "a few days prior to Andre being killed," that they would take care of each other's children if something happened to the other.
"Since this has happened," Edwards said, "his 5 year-old daughter ... took off running by herself.
"When she came back, I asked her, "What were you doing?' And she said, "It reminds me of my Dad - we used to run in the park all the time.'"
Hudson's daughters have attended the schools' "Papa and Princess" dances with Edwards, while wearing pictures of Hudson on their dresses, the uncle said.
Edwards called life after Hudson's death "hurtful" and "still very crushing" to his family.
Richardson noted Hudson had six children when he died, but "it's especially been hard on two of the younger children, who he stayed with each day while their mom worked."