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Guardsman gets 10 years in shooting, tampering
The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Jul 18, 2008 10:43:19 EDT
Posted : Friday Jul 18, 2008 10:43:19 EDT
BARDWELL, Ky. — A judge has sentenced a Kentucky guardsman to a prison term in a homicide case.
However 19-year-old Cody Morris will be eligible for parole in April.
The court in Bardwell sentenced Morris on Thursday to the maximum of five years each for reckless homicide and evidence tampering in the October shooting death of 18-year-old Casey Hall.
Judge Tim Langford sentenced Morris to consecutive terms for a total of 10 years, but Morris had been in jail for 273 days, since his arrest in October.
Hall was killed at a house where Morris and other teens were playing video games.
On May 7, a Carlisle County jury rejected a murder charge and instead convicted Morris on the lesser charges in the death of Hall, who was a fellow guardsman.
Morris had returned from military duty in Iraq about two weeks before the shooting.
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