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01/25/2008
Associated Press
A man who was tried twice on charges related to the 2006 fatal shooting of three men in front of his Skyway home was sentenced Thursday to two years and two months in prison after pleading guilty to reduced charges.
Just before his third trial was to begin last month, Dmitri Sidorchuk pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter and third-degree assault.
With credit for time already served awaiting trial, the sentence allowed Sidorchuk to be freed.
Jurors acquitted Sidorchuk of murder at his first trial, in August. They could not reach a verdict on manslaughter and assault charges. In November, a different jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on three counts of first-degree manslaughter and three counts of assault.
The case involved five young, unarmed men who were trying to act tough when they pulled their car into a strange driveway and were met with a barrage of gunfire that left two of them dead and three wounded, a sheriff's detective wrote in court papers at the time.
Killed in the shootings were Sovintha Nhem, 23; Sophea Sun, 20, and William Belk, 28. Evidence indicated the bullets that caused their deaths came from Sidorchuk's machine pistol. Belk was a friend of Sidorchuk, hit by one of Sidorchuk's stray bullets, prosecutors said.
Wounded were Sun's younger brother, Sopheak, Vykol Leng and Sovanchams Bunt.
The shootings came after an angry confrontation when a group of friends scattered after police asked them to leave Skyway Bowl and Casino.
At both trials, Sidorchuk's lawyer argued his client fired in self-defense when Nhem tried to hit him with a car.
01/25/2008
Associated Press
A man who was tried twice on charges related to the 2006 fatal shooting of three men in front of his Skyway home was sentenced Thursday to two years and two months in prison after pleading guilty to reduced charges.
Just before his third trial was to begin last month, Dmitri Sidorchuk pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter and third-degree assault.
With credit for time already served awaiting trial, the sentence allowed Sidorchuk to be freed.
Jurors acquitted Sidorchuk of murder at his first trial, in August. They could not reach a verdict on manslaughter and assault charges. In November, a different jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on three counts of first-degree manslaughter and three counts of assault.
The case involved five young, unarmed men who were trying to act tough when they pulled their car into a strange driveway and were met with a barrage of gunfire that left two of them dead and three wounded, a sheriff's detective wrote in court papers at the time.
Killed in the shootings were Sovintha Nhem, 23; Sophea Sun, 20, and William Belk, 28. Evidence indicated the bullets that caused their deaths came from Sidorchuk's machine pistol. Belk was a friend of Sidorchuk, hit by one of Sidorchuk's stray bullets, prosecutors said.
Wounded were Sun's younger brother, Sopheak, Vykol Leng and Sovanchams Bunt.
The shootings came after an angry confrontation when a group of friends scattered after police asked them to leave Skyway Bowl and Casino.
At both trials, Sidorchuk's lawyer argued his client fired in self-defense when Nhem tried to hit him with a car.
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