A resentencing hearing is set Monday afternoon for 43-year-old Jason Oskins, who was convicted in 1997 of killing his elderly grandmother. Oskins was sentenced by former circuit judge Robert Keenan, Jr. to 60 years in prison. But in January, the 5th District Appellate Court ruled that the 60-year prison term was basically a life sentence for Oskins who was 17 at the time of the killing and that a minor cannot be given a life sentence which is 40 years or more.

Oskins was then returned to the Wabash County Jail where he has been held since his sentence was vacated. Oskins killed his grandmother, Dorothy Oskins first knocking her out with a skillet and stabbing her seven times before hiding her body under debris.

A jury convicted him of first-degree murder and concealing a homicide in March of 1997 and he has served 25 years of the 60 year sentence. At the time of the sentence, court officials said Oskins would have to serve the entire time behind bars. The resentencing hearing will be at 1 Monday afternoon, according to State’s Attorney Kelli Storckman,