They lined the benches and crowded the courthouse hallway, laughing and teasing and greeting each other with hugs ? how was the drive … the baby?s grown so big … isn?t it a relief this is over.

Breaunna Floyd left behind a huge, tight-knit family when she was stabbed to death at age 13 in the summer of 2005. Her aunts, uncles and cousins were there in September when a Baltimore County jury convicted Breaunna?s stepfather, Carl Evans, of killing the teen and burning their Essex home to cover it up.