MINNEAPOLIS -- A jury on Wednesday convicted a Minneapolis man of murder in last year's shooting death of University of Minnesota football player Brandon Hall.

Jermaine Stansberry was on trial for beating and robbing a former Minnesota football player and shooting Hall, the player's friend, after a confrontation Sept. 1 in downtown Minneapolis.

Stansberry, 28, was charged with second-degree murder, first-degree aggravated robbery and being a felon in possession of a weapon. He was found guilty on all counts.

Sentencing was scheduled for Sept. 4. He faces at least a 25-year sentence on the murder charge and Hennepin County Attorney Amy Klobuchar said she would seek another six years on the robbery charge.

"Brandon Hall was a young man with a full life ahead of him who was killed in a senseless, cold-blooded act of violence,'' she said.

Hall, 19, was a 6-foot-5, 270-pound defensive lineman from Detroit. A redshirt freshman, he played in the Gophers' season opener on Aug, 31, hours before the shooting.

The closing arguments of both Hennepin County prosecutor Robert Streitz and Stansberry's lawyer, David McCormick, focused on the Michael Jordan Washington Wizards Jersey that Stansberry was wearing the night Hall was killed.

The prosecution contends that it points to Stansberry's guilt because several witnesses said the shooter was wearing the number 23 jersey. The defense said it was the reason for the alleged mistaken identity with Raymond Hardimon Jr., 23.

Stansberry said in his testimony Tuesday that he believes his white jersey was mistaken for the white T-shirt his friend and the person he believes shot Hall was wearing.

Streitz told the jury if they used their "common sense,'' they would find Stansberry guilty, though the DNA evidence on a necklace he allegedly took from Damian Haye, Hall's friends, is inconclusive and none of Stansberry's prints was found on the gun, he said.

He asked the jury that if Hardimon had shot Hall, as Stansberry claims, why didn't he tell that to the nearly 30 police officers at the shooting that night?

"He has a motive, a reason, to tell you what he did, because he is facing some serious charges,'' Streitz said.

McCormick told the jury that eyewitness testimony is the most unreliable evidence because of "suggestive influence'' from friends, media and faulty memory.

He said Stansberry did not have a gun, did not run from the scene of the shooting, and that the only crime Stansberry is guilty of is theft and possibly assault for taking Haye's necklace and admittedly kicking him once.

"While today's verdict provides some closure to the tragic death of Brandon Hall, his loss is felt in our lives every day,'' Minnesota coach Glen Mason said in a statement. "Brandon and his family will always be in the hearts and minds of all our coaches and players.''