James Hamm

James Hamm is a criminal justice consultant and convicted murderer. He was convicted for the drug-related murder of Willard Morley in 1974 and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years. His co-defendant, Garland Wells, was convicted of killing another man in the same incident. Morley and Staples were in Arizona for the purpose of purchasing drugs to sell to college students in Kansas. Staples was AWOL from the U.S. Army at the time of the 1974 offense. Both defendants (Hamm/Wells) were sentenced to prison for 25 years to life.