Comics retailer and convention organizer Michael George was sentenced this morning to life in prison in the 1990 murder of his first wife Barbara.

He’ll remain in the Macomb County, Mich., jail until Aug. 8, when Circuit Judge James Biernat will hear defense attorneys’ arguments for a new trial.

George was convicted March 17 of first-degree murder, felony firearm, insurance fraud and obtaining money from an insurance agency under false pretenses. He shot his wife in the head on July 13, 1990, in the back of their Clinton Township comic store and staged in to look like a robbery.

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