Steven Bragg will be sentenced in early July for the 2017 murder of Victoria Head.
Bragg’s first-degree murder trial was scheduled to start yesterday when his lawyers announced he would be pleading guilty to the lesser charge of second-degree murder.
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The minimum penalty is life in prison with no chance of parole for 10 years.
Bragg was freed on bail last year when his trial was delayed through no fault of his own, but he had been at the Pen for more than two years before that while awaiting trial. With extra credit for time already served, Bragg has racked up about three years and four months that will be applied to his sentence.
Bragg, now 40, strangled then-36-year-old Victoria Head and dumped her body in the woods off O’Brien’s Farm Road near Mount Scio.
A sentencing hearing is set for July 8.
