Donta Allen stood up in Baltimore City Circuit Court on Monday morning with his interlaced fingers fidgeting behind his back and said that for killing 21-year-old Linda Trinh, he deserved his life sentence.

Speaking softly and haltingly in a courtroom filled with around 20 members of Trinh?s family, Allen, 28, said he was “impulsive, careless” and “not myself” in January 2005 when he beat and strangled the Johns Hopkins University biomedical engineering major to death in her Charles Village apartment.

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