question: What was the penalty given to the defendant convicted of murdering his girlfriend in Cristina Gutierrez's 1993 case? 
answer: life sentence plus 30 years
context: Title: Cristina Gutierrez
  Passage: Maria Cristina Gutierrez (February 28, 1951 – January 30, 2004) was an American criminal defense attorney who represented several high profile defendants in the 1990s and the first Hispanic woman to be counsel of record in a case before the Supreme Court of the United States.  She was the initial trial attorney for Adnan Syed, the Baltimore area teen who was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee in 1999.  The murder trial and conviction gained national attention in 2014 and 2015 after being the subject of the first season of the online podcast "Serial".
  Title: Murder of Hae Min Lee
  Passage: Hae Min Lee (Hangul: 이해민 ; October 15, 1980 – January 13, 1999) was a Korean-American high school senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, who disappeared on January 13, 1999.  Her body was found four weeks later in Leakin Park, the victim of murder by manual strangulation.  Adnan Masud Syed, her ex-boyfriend, was convicted in February 2000 of first-degree murder and given a life sentence plus 30 years.
  Title: Sentence (law)
  Passage: A sentence is a decree of punishment.  In law, a sentence forms the final explicit act of a judge-ruled process, and also the symbolic principal act connected to his function.  The sentence can generally involve a decree of imprisonment, a fine and/or other punishments against a defendant convicted of a crime.  Those imprisoned for multiple crimes will serve a consecutive sentence (in which the period of imprisonment equals the sum of all the sentences served sequentially, or one after the next), a concurrent sentence (in which the period of imprisonment equals the length of the longest sentence where the sentences are all served together at the same time), or somewhere in between, sometimes subject to a cap.  Additional sentences include: Intermediate or those served on the weekend (usually Fri-Sun), Determinate or a specific set amount of time (90 days) or Indeterminate which are those that have a minimum and maximum time (90 to 120 days).  If a sentence gets reduced to a less harsh punishment, then the sentence is said to have been "mitigated" or "commuted".  Rarely (depending on circumstances) murder charges are "mitigated" and reduced to manslaughter charges.  However, in certain legal systems, a defendant may be punished beyond the terms of the sentence, e.g. social stigma, loss of governmental benefits, or, collectively, the collateral consequences of criminal charges.
  Title: Lockhart v. United States (2016)
  Passage: Lockhart v. United States, 577 U.S. ___ (2016) , is a United States Supreme Court decision concerning the interpretation of a federal statute.  18 USC §2252(b)(2) states that a defendant convicted of possessing child pornography is subject to a mandatory 10 year minimum prison sentence if they have "a prior conviction...under the laws of any State relating to aggravated sexual abuse, sexual abuse, or abusive sexual conduct involving a minor or ward."  Avondale Lockhart, convicted of possession of child pornography, had a prior conviction for sexual abuse of his 53-year-old girlfriend under New York State law.  He was sentenced to 10 years in prison under §2252(b)(2).  He appealed claiming that the qualifier "involving a minor or ward" applies to the whole series, making his prior conviction not trigger the sentence enhancement.  In a 6-2 decision, the Supreme Court held that the phrase only modifies the final item in the series, upholding the 10 year minimum sentence imposed on Lockhart.
  Title: Penalty corner
  Passage: In field hockey, a penalty corner, sometimes known as a short corner, is a penalty given against the defending team.  It is predominantly awarded for a defensive infringement in the "penalty circle" or for a deliberate infringement within the defensive "23-metre area".  They are eagerly sought by attacking players and provide an excellent opportunity to score.  There are particular rules for that only apply at penalty corners and players develop specialist skills, such as the drag flick, for this particular phase in the game.
  Title: Penalty stroke
  Passage: In field hockey, a penalty stroke, sometimes known as a penalty flick, is the most severe penalty given.  It is predominantly awarded when a foul has prevented a certain goal from being scored or for a deliberate infringement by a defender in the penalty circle.
citations: Cristina Gutierrez Murder of Hae Min Lee