Steven Fortin, 55, is serving a life sentence at New Jersey State Prison for the murder of 25-year-old Melissa Padilla in 1994. A state appellate court on Monday rejected his motion that he ...

Convicted killer Steven Fortin was sentenced this morning in New Brunswick to life in state prison without the possibility of parole for the 1994 murder of Melissa Padilla in Woodbridge.

Jurors in New Brunswick deliberated about an hour before finding that Steve Fortin, 45, should be sentenced to life without parole, Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan said. Fortin ...

Small and slender, with her mother’s dark eyes and generous mouth, Padilla turned tearfully to Steve Fortin, who will spend the rest of his life in prison without any chance for parole.

A state appeals court ruled today that Steven Fortin -- convicted, re-tried and convicted again of the 1994 murder of a Woodbridge woman -- cannot be sentenced to life in prison without parole ...

The crime was especially brutal, and Steven Fortin was sentenced to the ultimate penalty -- death. But his life was spared -- not once, but twice.His first death sentence in February 2001 for the ...

A jury will now decide the punishment for Steven Fortin, a Carteret handyman who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for raping and killing a Woodbridge woman. Before New Jersey ...

Steven Fortin, 43, is entitled to a parole eligibility date because New Jersey law provided for a life prison term with a minimum 30 years in custody, at the time the defendant killed 25-year-old ...