Jennifer Hudson’s Ex-Brother-in-Law Gets Three Life Sentences

Jennifer Hudson and William Balfour Michael Buckner/Getty; Landov Described by the judge as possessing a soul "as barren as dark space," William Balfour was sentenced Tuesday to three life sentences for the 2008 murders of Jennifer Hudson 's mother, brother and nephew. "You have the heart of an arctic night," Cook County Circuit Judge Charles Burns told Hudson's former brother-in-law during the sentencing in a Chicago courtroom