A Butler Township man convicted of third-degree murder last month was ordered Monday to be serve 12 months of reentry supervision upon his release from the 17 to 34 years in prison he is serving.

The sentence Nathan Michael, 29, received for the June 24, 2024, shooting death of Joseph Derenzo, 38, was amended to include the reentry supervision, a form of probation designed to help individuals reintegrate into the community.

Judge Joseph Kubit, who presided over Michael’s jury trial and imposed the sentence, granted a post-sentence motion from the public defender’s office to amended the sentence to add reentry supervision.

Kubit said the supervision is required under Title 61, which addresses prisons and parole, when a person’s minimum aggregate sentence is 4 years or more. He said the a

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