Everyone claimed Jamal Brown is a changed man.

Even the prosecution agreed that Brown, facing sentencing in Lycoming County Court Friday for his part in a city homicide case, had undergone a major transformation since that fatal August day in 2016.

“That is something I have to live with every day,” Brown said shortly before he received a one- to three-year state prison sentence for conspiracy to commit robbery.

Brown, 41, of Williamsport, had pled guilty in 2019 for his part in the robbery that resulted in the shooting death of Christopher Wilkins.

That he had confessed to his part in a murder, along with his remorse and sterling behavior of recent years, played a major part in Judge Marc F. Lovecchio’s decision to refrain from handing down a tougher sentence.

“You have made substantial strides,” he told Brown. “You deserve a mitigated sentence.”

Lycoming County Assistant District Attorney Martin Wade said the Wilkins murder would likely have remain unsolved had Brown not come forward with information in the case.

Such confessions in unsolved cases, he noted, are rare.

In doing so, he put his life in danger, according to Wade.

“There is something different about this guy,” he said.

Wade even went as far as saying that a state prison term would only be detrimental for Brown.

Wilkins, 27, of Philadelphia, was shot dead after several people broke into his apartment.

Joseph Coleman Jr., now serving a life prison sentence, allegedly wanted to rob Wilkins of cash and drugs.

That morning, Brown agreed to help Coleman get into Wilkins’s apartment in exchange for erasing a drug debt.

Later, Brown reportedly went to the Park Avenue apartment with Coleman and James Calvin Rooks to make sure the back door to the residence was open.

Lovecchio read several letters from relatives and others expressing their admiration for Brown’s transformation from his criminal past and addictions to employment and the life of a model husband and father.

He went as far as saying Brown has even been a role model.

The judge noted his upbringing in a tough neighborhood of Brooklyn that included drug dealing and other crime.

“I was in a bad place in 2016,” Brown said. “I never want to be there again.”

He said he just wanted to get back to his life with his family.