What's next for Darrell Brooks now that he has been found guilty on all counts in the Waukesha Christmas Parade attack?

Waukesha exhaled Wednesday after a jury returned 76 guilty verdicts against Darrell Brooks Jr. in the Christmas parade attack last year. Blue light bathed the city that night and since, symbolizing Waukesha Strong, the community's collective self-support as it moves past the tragedy.

But it's not there yet. Brooks' trial lasted more than three weeks, and he still must be sentenced.

Even though he faces mandatory life in prison for each of the first-degree intentional homicide convictions, there's a lot more involved. The judge has set a hearing Monday to discuss scheduling and logistics of the sentencing.

CourtTV, which streamed the entire 3½ week trial, is still set up at the Waukesha County Courthouse for that.

The role of Judge Jennifer Dorow moving forward in the Darrell Brooks trial

Whenever sentencing occurs, Circuit Judge Jennifer Dorow will have to decide if and when Brooks can petition for release to serve the balance of his sentence under community supervision. And even though sentences for the other convictions — reckless endangerment, bail jumping, hit-and-run involving injury, battery — will be subordinate to the life terms, Dorow must decide them.

It also will be up to her whether any or all of them will be concurrent or consecutive to others.

There will be another chance for victims and their families to make impact statements. Brooks, too, will get another chance to address the court, and the community.

Will Darrell Brooks appeal his conviction?

Once Brooks is sentenced, he'll have 20 days to file notice of appeal. That could take years to complete, according to a couple of veteran appellate lawyers, and has long odds, at best, to save Brooks from life in prison.

Ellen Henak said if Brooks decides not to continue representing himself, he would again qualify for an attorney from the State Public Defender. The first thing she expects would be examined is Dorow's decision to allow Brooks go to trial without a lawyer. The judge devoted two long hearings to the topic, and made a detailed record of her conclusion that Brooks had made a knowing, voluntary decision to waive his right to an attorney.

Brooks made many objections during trial, but Henak said they may not have been the right ones.

"The problem with pro se, from appeals point, is there's no such thing as ineffective assistance of counsel," Henak said.