NEW JERSEY
The Star-Ledger
By Alexi Friedman/The Star-Ledger
CHATHAM BOROUGH — The Rev. Edward Hinds was a spiritual leader and counselor, a compassionate and forgiving man, and in the end a martyr, friends, relatives and the Morris County prosecutor said yesterday at the sentencing of the former church custodian who killed him.
After more than an hour of dramatic words from those who knew and loved the longtime Chatham church pastor, a judge in Morristown ordered that Jose Feliciano, 66, spend the rest of his life in prison with the possibility of parole.
Judith Ann Conk, who with her husband, Richard, knew Hinds for 40 years, found no solace in the life sentence. There is only solitude and grief over the pastor’s death, she said.
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