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GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — A 24-year-old Gillette man has been sentenced to 48 years to life in prison for a second time in a fatal shooting on Thanksgiving 2013.
Todd Sindelar was convicted in January of shooting and killing Matthew Boyer. He had been convicted and sentenced for the same crime once before, but that conviction was thrown out because of an improper jury instruction.
District Judge Michael N. "Nick" Deegan on Tuesday handed down the same sentence that he originally ordered after the first conviction.
The Gillette News Record reports (http://bit.ly/2n8CmCw ) that Deegan noted the evidence presented in the second trial was the same as the first.
Public defender Mitchell Damsky asked Deegan to give Sindelar a sentence of 25 years to life.
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Information from: The Gillette (Wyo.) News Record, http://www.gillettenewsrecord.com
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