Woman sentenced to life for 2002 killing

A 36-year-old Brockton woman was convicted of first-degree murder yesterday in Brockton Superior Court after a six-day jury trial found she was guilty of striking a man multiple times in the head with a cinderblock and killing him. The court ruled in her second jury trial that Shelia Berry killed acquaintance Admilson Goncalves, also of Brockton, in August 2002, according to a statement from Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz’s office. She was sentenced to life in prison. Berry was first convicted of first-degree murder in 2006, but the conviction was overturned in 2010 after the Supreme Judicial Court determined that improper instructions were given to the jury, according to Cruz’s office.