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PENSACOLA, Florida (CNN) -- Two Florida brothers will serve sentences in state prison after pleading guilty to killing their father with a baseball bat, a judge announced Thursday.

Derek King, 14, will spend eight years in state prison, and his 13-year-old brother Alex will spend seven years in state prison.

Look how happy they all are. What are the chances that these boys will be rehabilitated when they get out?

A human life is worth 8 years? Ya hear that kids, you can kill your dad and still make prom!!!

Circuit Judge Frank Bell said Thursday the boys' rights were violated in part by the way prosecutors simultaneously presented two contradictory theories of the crime.

Prosecutors won the conviction of Alex, 13, and Derek King, 14, last month by arguing that Derek swung the aluminum baseball bat that killed their father. In a trial that ended a week earlier, the prosecution's star witnesses — Alex and Derek — testified an adult friend committed the crime.

The judge said he will order a new trial for the boys, and in the meantime will appoint a mediator who will try to work out a deal.

"I don't think there's a doubt in anybody's mind the jury was confused by the dual prosection," said Alex's lawyer, James Stokes. "Hopefully, we'll be able to resolve the issue in mediation."

Isn't that Macaulay Culkin? MEDIATION??? the kid's killed their dad and burned his house down? MEDIATION???

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