SPOKANE, Wash. – A man who admitted to the 1994 killing of a 22-year-old Spokane woman was sentenced for the third time on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, a judge reduced Kevin Boots’ sentence for a second time, this time to 32 years to life with credit to time served. That could provide Boot a chance for parole in just under two years.
The two recent resentencing hearings for Boots were prompted by a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court Decision that mandatory minimums of life in prison for those under 18 years of age is unconstitutional.
In the 1994 murder, Boots and his cousin Jerry Boots kidnapped Felicia Reese from a downtown Spokane parking garage where she was attending a Christian conference.
Reese had attended the conference and then left to drop her fiancé off at work for the night and when she returned back at the conference she was taken and killed.
Reese was 22 at the time and was only 6 months away from getting married. Her family buried her in her wedding dress.
Boot has been in prison for around 30 years for the crime and received a mandatory life sentence without possibility of parole originally when he was only 17 years old.
Boots was first resentenced in 2017, when his sentence was reduced to 50 years with the possibility of parole. Judge Raymond Clary, who presided over the case, noted that Boot had escalated his crimes with six prior convictions related to gang activity.
He continued his dedication to his gang activity for the first five years of his prison sentence according to Clary.
