sentences:  Over the next two years, Wallace's trial was delayed over choice of venue, DNA evidence from murdered victims, and jury selection.His trial began in September 1996.In the opening arguments, prosecutor Marsha Goodnow argued for the death penalty, while defense attorney Isabel Day asked for a life sentence, arguing that Wallace suffered from mental illness, and that the killings were not first-degree murder because they did not result from "premeditation and deliberation".