JOSEPH BEARDEN SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON

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FOR THE 2007 FLORIDA MURDER OF RYAN SKIPPER BARTOW, FL FEB 27 2009 3:30 PM Sentencing was swift by Judge J. Michael Hunter in the Murder trial of Joseph Eli (Smiley) Bearden, 23. He imposed the maximum sentences allowable under the law as punishment for his involvement in the brutal slaying of a Florida gay man, Ryan Skipper, who at the time of his death was 25. At 3:30 PM,unmoved by the pleas of Bearden's mother, Pastor, and the defendant himself, Judge Hunter sentenced Bearden to LIFE in a ...