Mr Motassadek faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if convicted.
The case focused on Harkins' complaint that if he was extradited, he was at risk of the death penalty or a sentence of life imprisonment without parole.
Mr Justice Weir told Cavan that as he had pleaded guilty to murder, "there is only one sentence prescribed by law for that and that is the sentence of life imprisonment".
Mr Bryant says any conviction on a murder charge would carry a sentence of life imprisonment or death, and that he will not agree to charge Mr Rideau with the lesser crime of manslaughter.
It is rarely the case that a prisoner is released on licence immediately upon the expiry of the punishment part of his sentence, and indeed a prisoner serving a sentence of life imprisonment may never be released from prison.
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The wheels of his capital prosecution have now been set in motion after the offer made by Holmes' defense counsel to plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of life imprisonment without the chance of parole was rejected by Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler.
Under our law, there is only one sentence which I can impose in respect of charge two, namely life imprisonment, and I sentence you to life imprisonment.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Glasgow and West | Lord Menzies sentence statement
Speaking from his cell ahead of the sentence, he told the BBC his worst fear was being hanged but he also dreaded life imprisonment "in one of the worst jails in the world".
In addition to the five acquittals, a sixth man, one of the village elders, had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment last week.
Within hours, a hastily convened Commission on the Prerogative of Mercy met, chaired by the attorney-general, and advised the president to commute the sentence to life imprisonment, which he did.
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