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Last updated on Tuesday, December 22, 2009
(INDIANAPOLIS, IN) - The Indiana Court of Appeals is upholding the 50-year-prison sentence given to a Gary man who shot an east Chicago woman in the head in August 2008.
Gaylon Washington Jr. claimed the trial court did not consider his mental illness as a factor in his actions before imposing the sentence.
The appeals court ruled 3-0 Monday that the sentence would have been the same even if Washington's mental illness was considered separate from other mitigating factors.
Washington pleaded guilty to felony voluntary manslaughter in March.
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