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The 27-year-old had failed to attend court at two previous hearings as well as the sentencing without providing a reason.
The BBC reported that Ms. Pryce, 60, met the verdict by gulping silently before leaving the court, on bail until her sentencing, without talking to the waiting reporters and television crews.
Alford pleas are treated as guilty pleas, allowing the court to move forward with sentencing without the need for a trial.
The Orange County district attorney's office has appealed the case, and several lawyers stepped forward to say that the judicial process should be allowed to evaluate the sentencing without the interference of politics.
Acknowledging that trial judges occasionally misspeak during sentencing without it being a basis for reversible error, the Court of appeals, with "genuine reluctance" remanded the Bakker case because the comments were "in the end, too intemperate to be ignored".
In a statement, public defender Scott Sanders said Dekraai "understands and accepts" that proceeding to sentencing without a penalty trial would "mean an end to all trial and appellate challenges in this case" and that he stands "ready to begin serving the rest of his life in prison".
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