0 Edrick Faust, far left, stands as Superior Court Judge Lisa Lott on Thursday imposed two life sentences for murder and rape. The man convicted in the slaying of a University of Georgia law school student 25 years ago stood in silence late Thursday as a judge administered a maximum punishment for the violent crime. Judge Lisa Lott offered little comment as she imposed two life sentences plus a consecutive 45 years in prison on Edrick Lamont Faust, the 50-year-old Athens man convicted by a jury of murdering Tara Baker on Jan. 19, 2001. “You are in custody,” Lott told Faust as she adjourned the proceedings in a Clarke County Superior Court trial that lasted 12 days plus an additional five days in the jury selection process. Deputies placed chains on Faust and he was led from the courtroom. Defense attorney Ahmad Crews had asked Lott to impose a minimum sentence allowed by law, but Western Circuit District Attorney Kalki Yalamanchili asked the judge to impose the maximum punishment. In arguing for the maximum, Yalamanchili offered documents showing a portion of Faust’s criminal record over the past two decades, including convictions for aggravated assault, possession of a firearm by
