The son of a Mobile judge has pleaded guilty to murder and been sentenced to 28 years in prison, according to court documents.

Timothy Gerald Hall Jr., the 33-year-old son of Mobile Municipal Judge Shelbonnie Hall, pleaded guilty Thursday in Mobile County circuit court as part of a plea agreement to avoiding trial. Judge J. Langford Floyd handed down the prison term.

Special prosecutor Spencer Walker filed notice with the court in 2019 that the state intended to seek the death penalty for Hall, who was originally charged with capital murder in the death of Larry Willingham.

Hall was indicted in 2018. According to the indictment, Hall killed Willingham in 2017 by blunt force trauma while committing burglary and first-degree robbery at a home on Pleasant Valley Road in Mobile.

Hall will serve his murder sentence at the same time as a 20-year prison sentence for probation revocation on a robbery conviction, the judge ordered.