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September 5, 2010

Man given life in prison for killing of former DA

JESUP — A man has been sentenced to life without parole in the 2007 beating death a former district attorney.

The Jesup jury on Saturday spared Bobby “Rex” Stribling from a death sentence for the murder of Glenn Thomas Jr. The jury convicted the 49-year-old Stribling Wednesday of malice murder on Wednesday.

The jury deliberated about two and a half hours before handing down the sentence.

Police say Stribling repeatedly struck the 74-year-old Thomas in the head during a lunchtime robbery at his law office in downtown Jesup. Thomas died two weeks later in a Savannah hospital without ever regaining consciousness.

Thomas served 30 years as district attorney for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit until he retired in 1996.

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