A judge sentenced two men convicted in the shooting death of a Butte man during a botched bounty hunt to 40 years each in the Montana State Prison on Thursday, even though only one of them pulled the trigger.
Jay Hubber listens to District Judge Robert Whalen during sentencing on Thursday, June 20, 2024.
Whelan sentenced Jay Steven Hubber to 60 years in prison for deliberate homicide by accountability but suspended 20 of those years. He gave Hubber 20 years for aggravated burglary but that will run concurrently to the longer sentence.
